
Malvaceae FAMILY
Cola uloloma
Cola uloloma
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Cola uloloma is an evergreen plant. Occasionally only a shrub around 1.5 - 3 metres tall, but more often it becomes a tree, usually growing from 3 - 10 metres tall with occasional specimens up to 25 metres being recorded[ 736 Title Flora of West Tropical Africa Publication Author Website http://plants.jstor.org/search?st=2025 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online flora, not yet complet (2012). Very comprehensive as regards to species covered, but the information on each species is often rather terse. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use of its wood. It is sometimes planted to provide shade.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeEast tropical Africa - Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi.
HabitatLowland forest[ 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. ].