Combretum butyrosum

Botanical Description

Combretum butyrosum can vary in habit from a prostrate shrub or subshrub growing no more than 4 metres tall to a large scrambling shrub or climbing plant with stems 10 metres long[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for its oily fruits, which are used locally to make a butter. It makes a good butter, but the species seems to be too rare to be of economic importance[ 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. ].