Menispermaceae FAMILY

Cocculus pendulus

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cocculus pendulus is a dioecious, much-branched climbing or scandent shrub[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is used in traditional medicine, being harvested from the wild.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeNorthern Tropical Africa through Arabia, east to India.

HabitatSemi-desert scrub vegetation or deciduous bushland, sometimes in shady localities along streams, climbing on trees such as Acacia and Balanites spp., up to 1,900 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Found on sandy and gravelly soils, sometimes colonizes dry fallow land[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].