Peridiscaceae FAMILY

Soyauxia floribunda

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Soyauxia floribunda is an evergreen shrub or slender tree with very flexible stems; it can grow 2 - 10 metres tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Senegal to Cote D'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo.

HabitatAn understorey plant in rain-forest, occasionally in semi-deciduous forest; conspicuous in forest re-growth; at elevations from 480 - 700 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 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/ ].