Loganiaceae FAMILY

Strychnos dale

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Strychnos dale is a climbing shrub with robust stems that can be 30 - 50 metres long or more and climb up to 40 metres high into neighbouring trees, attaching itself by means of tendrils[ 2064 Title Loganiaceae Publication Flore d’Afrique centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi), Spermatophytes Author Leeuwenberg A.J.M. & Bamps P. Website http://10.5281/zenodo.4569937 Publisher Meise, Jardin botanique national de Belgique Year 1979 ISBN Description This publication, along with many other from the Flore d’Afrique centrale, has been made available as a PDF document under a Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-NC-SA) ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, Angola

HabitatRainforests, secondary forests, gallery forests; at elevations up to 860 metres[ 2064 Title Loganiaceae Publication Flore d’Afrique centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi), Spermatophytes Author Leeuwenberg A.J.M. & Bamps P. Website http://10.5281/zenodo.4569937 Publisher Meise, Jardin botanique national de Belgique Year 1979 ISBN Description This publication, along with many other from the Flore d’Afrique centrale, has been made available as a PDF document under a Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-NC-SA) ].