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Vahadenia laurentii

Botanic Family
Apocynaceae
Author
(De Wildeman) Stapf

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Geographical Habitats

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Liana or semi-scandent glabrous shrub with coriaceous glabrous leaves 150mm x 65mm. Cymes or panicles with bracts to 25mm long, aromatic white flowers, glabrous calyx with reddish-brown sepals to 10mm long x 7mm, glabrous corolla with tube to 20mm long lobes 20mm x 5mm. Orange & yellow fruit to 60mm diameter.

Edible fruit, latex used as bird lime

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