Annonaceae FAMILY
Cleistopholis patens
Cleistopholis patens
Edibility
1/5
Medicinal
3/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitTree
GrowthFast
Requires a sunny position[1]. The tree can grow very rapidly - seven year old specimens in Sierra Leone were 13 metres tall with a diameter of over 20cm[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cleistopholis+patens>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]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/
- [2]Flora of Tropical East Africa — Beentje H.J. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 2002 · http://plants.jstor.org/search?st=396814 ↩︎Available on-line, a modern flora of East Africa.