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Capparis erythrocarpos

Botanic Family

Capparaceae

Author

Isert

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Thickets of coastal scrub.

Flowering Times

• May
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Nov

Spiny lianescent evergreen clambering shrub with small curved spines. Glabrescent coriaceous leaves 75mm x 40mm. Axillary solitary yellow-green or white flowers to 50mm across with white stamens, red at base, pilose-tomentose petals. Fruits mature red to 50mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FWTA