Araliaceae FAMILY

Cussonia paniculata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cussonia paniculata is a short, thick-set, sparsely-branched, evergreen tree rarely exceeding 5 metres in height[ 295 Title PlantZAfrica.com Publication Author Website http://www.plantzafrica.com Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent site giving detailed descriptions and uses of many S. African plants. ]. A beautiful tree, often grown as an ornamental. This plant is considered a pachycaul succulent on the basis of its swollen stem base or tuber which forms early in plants grown from seed. The roots are also thick and swollen[ 295 Title PlantZAfrica.com Publication Author Website http://www.plantzafrica.com Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent site giving detailed descriptions and uses of many S. African plants. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSouthern Africa - Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, S. Africa.

HabitatOften found in rocky places where it grows in crevices filled with natural organic humus and compost[ 295 Title PlantZAfrica.com Publication Author Website http://www.plantzafrica.com Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent site giving detailed descriptions and uses of many S. African plants. ]. Open, wooded grassland[ 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. ].