Icacinaceae FAMILY

Icacina trichantha

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Icacina trichantha is a small shrub producing climbing stems up to 2 metres long from a very large tuber[ 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 plant is gathered from the wild and used locally as a source of food, medicines and fuel.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWestern tropical Africa - Nigeria.

HabitatForest and jungle vegetation[ 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 plant is also reported to have become a weed of rice-paddies[ 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/ ].