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Gonolobus edulis

Botanic Family
Apocynaceae
Author
Hemsley
Propagation
S.

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Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Twining liana with pilose stems becoming glabrate. Leaves to 90mm x 50mm, hispid above & strigose beneath. Axillary racemes of 5-10 green flowers or lateral umbels of 3-5 flowers with bracts to 2mm long, creamy white to green 25mm wide flowers, pilose calyx lobes 10mm x 6mm, yellowish-green corolla, petals to 27mm long, tube 5mm long with lobes to 14mm x 7mm. Longitudinally 5-winged fruits to 120mm long.

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