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Coccinia adoensis var. jeffreyana

Botanic Family
Cucurbitaceae
Author
Holstein

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Natural Habitats

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Perennial creeper or climber to 3m with hairy stems. 3-5 lobed leaves to 105mm x 120mm with dentate margins, glabrous or slightlky hairy above & densely so beneath with bracts to 3mm x simple tendrils. Male flowers in racemes with bracts to 1mm, calyx lobe to 3.5mm, yellow-orange or dark crimson corolla to 16.5mm with lobes to 7mm. Glabrous red fruit to 60mm x 10mm.

Leaves boiled & eaten, fruits edible when ripe

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