Gongronema angolense

Botanical Description

Gongronema angolense is a slender climbing plant producing stems with a woody base from a fleshy rootstock. Thee stems are often only 4 - 5 metres long, but they can also climb to the canopy of tall trees. All parts of the plant contain a milky latex[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 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 roots are sometimes harvested from the wild and eaten by children.