Combretaceae FAMILY
Guiera senegalensis
Guiera senegalensis
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
4/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitEvergreen Shrub
GrowthSlow
A plant of arid and semi-arid areas in the tropics. Requires a sunny position. Grows wild in light, dry soils[1, 2]. Capable of growing on very poor, dry, leached soils[3]. For many decades the range of this plant has been spreading further south to areas with wetter conditions[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Guiera+senegalensis>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
- [2]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/
- [3]Trees and Shrubs of the Sahel. Their Characteristics and Uses. — von Maydell H. · Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit; Germany · 1990 · ISBN 3-8236-1198-4 ↩︎A well-researched book, usually with more than one photograph of each species and good information on the plant and its uses.