Rubiaceae FAMILY

Breonadia salicina

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Breonadia salicina is a medium sized tree with a spreading crown; usually growing from 3 - 18 metres tall[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a tooth cleaner, medicinal plant and source of timber.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - drier areas, Mali to Ethiopia, south to S. Africa and Madagascar, west to Angola.

HabitatIn savannah, nearly always by streams, usually in gallery forest, sometimes in rocky places; at elevations of 60 - 1,550 metres[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].