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Salacia pyriformis

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Sabine) Steudel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Thicket
• forest edge
• forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr

Large liana, 50mm diameter orange fruit with warty surface, faintly sweet-scented greenish-white & orange-brown flowers

Edible fruits

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2