Cultivation Details
HabitTree
Growth—
Seedlings occur in heavy shade and produce their first hollow, horizontal branches when 100 - 150cm tall; these are colonized by aggressive, stinging ants[1]. In Nigeria the tree begins to fruit when more than 8 metres tall (more than 10 years old)[1]. The growth rate is 50 - 100cm per year, and the tree dies after 15 - 30 reproductive seasons, at which time the crown is high enough to be exposed to broken sunlight[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-19. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Barteria+fistulosa>
Pollinators
Bees
References
- [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
- [2]Flora of West Tropical Africa — http://plants.jstor.org/search?st=2025 ↩︎An online flora, not yet complet (2012). Very comprehensive as regards to species covered, but the information on each species is often rather terse.
- [3]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/