Fabaceae FAMILY

Pterolobium stellatum

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Pterolobium stellatum is a scrambling or climbing, rarely semi-erect, multi-stemmed shrub with recurved prickles, growing from 2 - 15 metres tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is used to make a black or red dye and a waterproof black ink. It has a number of traditional medicinal uses and is often grown as an impenetrable hedge. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental[ 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. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeEastern Africa - Eritrea, south to S. Africa. Also found in Peninsular Arabia.

HabitatDry evergreen forest; evergreen bushland; riverine forest; deciduous woodland; sometimes on termite-mounds in grassland; forest regrowth with Syzygium; rain-forest with Albizia, Macaranga, Croton, Ocotea, climber at forest edge[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].