Embelia concinna

Botanical Description

Embelia concinna is a densely leafy, evergreen climbing shrub or, in open positions, sometimes a shrub with slender somewhat prostrate beanches[ 455 Title Flore de Madagascar et des Comores Publication Author Humbert H. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle; Paris Year 1946 - 1984 ISBN Description Written in French, an excellent flora of the area though it has not been completed. Available for download from the Internet. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. The leaves are used in proprietary cosmetic preparations for soothing the skin.