Euclea crispa

Botanical Description

Euclea crispa can be an evergreen shrub or small bushy tree growing up to 8 metres tall with a bole 5 - 15cm in diameter. At times it can be a rhizomatous suffrutex or virgate shrub growing 30 - 300cm 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 edible fruit and leaves are sometimes harvested from the wild for local use.