Euphorbiaceae FAMILY

Chrozophora plicata

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

Fresh shoots are toxic to many grazing mammals, though camels eat it[ 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. ].

Botanical Description

Chrozophora is a monoecious, annual to short-lived perennial herb growing up to 50 cm tall[ 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 harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine, dye and source of oil.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - Senegal to Somalia, south to N. South Africa. Also Egypt and Saudi Arabia to tropical Asia.

HabitatFlood plains of rivers, along drainage channels, usually in damp or desiccating black clay soils and alluvial soils, on mudflats and sandbanks, up to 1,200 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. ]. Also found as a weed of arable 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. ].