Passifloraceae FAMILY

Adenia lobata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

The sap of the stem is used as an arrow poison and to kill rats and street dogs[ 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. ]. The stem, stem bark, fruit or sap are used for fish poisoning[ 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. ].

Botanical Description

Adenia lobata is a large climbing shrub producing stems up to 45 metres long and up to 12cm in diameter. The stems attach themselves to other plants for support by means of tendrils[ 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. ]. Widely used as a traditional medicine in west Africa, the plant is commonly gathered from the wild. It is also collected for food, fibres and to make sponges[ 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. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Senegal to Cameroon, south to Angola.

HabitatRainforest, secondary forest, forest edges, gallery forest, periodically inundated and marshy forest and on rocky outcrops, at elevations from sea-level up to 1,800 metres[ 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. ].