Apocynaceae FAMILY

Pentalinon luteum

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

An arrow poison is made from the plant[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. ]. The plant is also used to stupefy fish[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. ].

Botanical Description

Pentalinon luteum is a climbing shrub with stems up to 5 metres long that twine around other plants for support[ 648 Title Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Vol. 51 Publication Author Acevedo-Rodríguez P. (Editor) Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Smithsonian Institution; Washington. Year 2005 ISBN Description A treatment of the climbing plants of Puerto Rico. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is sometimes gathered from the wild for local medicinal use.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeCaribbean - Jamaica to the Bahamas; N. America - Florida.

HabitatCoastal forests and thickets in Puerto Rico[ 648 Title Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Vol. 51 Publication Author Acevedo-Rodríguez P. (Editor) Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Smithsonian Institution; Washington. Year 2005 ISBN Description A treatment of the climbing plants of Puerto Rico. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].