Pavetta edentula

Cultivation Details

A plant of the moist subtropical zone in eastern Africa, just moving into the tropical areas of Mozambique. Many Pavetta species, including this one, produce leaves with bacterial nodes - these bacteria live in symbiosis with the plant and pass into any seeds that are produced, thus seedlings are already inocculated with the bacteria^[1]. It is not certain what function the bacteria play, theories include nitrogen-fixation, growth-regulation and making the leaves poisonous to livestock^[2].