Clerodendrum capitatum
Clerodendrum capitatum
Safety & Hazards
The leaves have been used in making arrow poisons[ 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/ ].
Botanical Description
Clerodendrum capitatum is sometimes an erect or more or less spreading shrub growing 1.8 - 6 metres tall, more commonly becoming a climbing or scrambling shrub up to 6 metres 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 plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental[ 1026 Title Useful Plants of Ghana Publication Author Abbiw D.K. Publisher The Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew, UK Year 1990 ISBN 1-85339-043-7 Description The book is ordered by usage, rather than by plant. It makes it easier to look up individual uses, but rather difficult to collate all the uses of each species. Otherwise, a well-researched book. ].