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Ipomoea asarifolia
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Ipomoea asarifolia

Ipomoea asarifolia

Edibility
1/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

A purgative toxic resin is probably present in the plant. It is said to cause diarrhoea in horses if accidentally grazed, and madness and death in camels, but camels are recorded to eat it in Senegal and sheep sometimes eat it in Mauritania[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitPerennial Climber
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ipomoea+asarifolia>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [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. [2]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
  3. [3]Traditional Vegetables in Benin — Achigan-Dako E. Et al · Darwin Initiative; International Foundation for Science · 2009 ↩︎Issued as a PDF on the Internet, it contains basic information on over 250 species of plants used for food in Benin.
  4. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎