Iridaceae FAMILY

Aristea polycephala

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Aristea polycephala is a perennial herbaceous plant with blue inflorescences growing up to 1 metre high[ 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/ ]. The sap is used locally to produce a dye[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - the Rift Valley mountains and escarpments to the NW and E of Lake Malawi, and SW Tanzania.

HabitatFavours marshy sites[ 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. ].