Malvaceae FAMILY

Grewia carpinifolia

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Grewia carpinifolia is a straggling or climbing shrub with stems 2.4 - 5 metres long, exceptionally to 20 metre, and 25 - 100mm in diameter. The plant scrambles over surrounding shrubs; the stems when old becoming deeply cleft into 3 - 4 laterally flattened lobes, which may separate as the centre rots[ 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 harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Sierra Leone to Cameroon and DR Congo, south to Angola

HabitatSecondary growth in moist or dry semi-deciduous forest; in thickets on coastal plains; gallery forest; fallow areas in forest; farmbush; on shallow soil, rocky outcrops; deciduous rain-forest[ 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. ].