25.00 m
Climber
None Recorded
Wild
Adenia gummifera is a climbing perennial plant with somewhat woody stems that can be up to 30 metres long.
The plant attaches itself to other plants etc by means of tendrils. The base of the stems can be 10cm in diameter.
The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and glue.
The whole plant is pounded and used as fish poison.
Dry and moist forest and bushland at elevations from sea level to 500 metres.
Wild
Requires a sunny position in a well-drained soil.
Leaves - cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
The young leaves are chopped and cooked alone, or mixed with other vegetables such as amaranth or spinach.
Coconut juice or pounded groundnuts may be added and the dish eaten with ugali or rice.
A decoction of the roots is taken as a remedy for malaria, diarrhoea, leprosy and VD.
The decoction is also taken with milk to treat anaemia.
The roots are chewed to treat snakebite.
None Recorded
An exudate obtained by heating the stems is used to glue knives on to their handles.
Seed
Cuttings
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