Sapotaceae FAMILY
Chrysophyllum welwitschii
Chrysophyllum welwitschii
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Chrysophyllum welwitschii varies in habit - usually an evergreen climber growing up to 20 metres tall with very slender bole, it can also be a shrub growing no more than 3 - 5 metres tall[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The plant is gathered from the wild for local use as a medicine and for other commodities.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeWestern tropical Africa - Sierra Leone to S Nigeria, and on into Zaire and Angola.
HabitatScrub vegetation and gallery forest[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description 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/ ].