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Adenia globosa is a succulent, caudex-forming climber or shrub from dry tropical East Africa, valued for its swollen, warty trunk. The key to growing it is strong light, very sharp drainage and sparing watering.
Adenia globosa is a species of flowering plant in the passionflower family, Passifloraceae. It is native to tropical Africa, where it occurs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. It is known as mpaga in Swahili.
The plant is used in traditional African medicine for abdominal pain and itching. The Maasai people use it as medicine for their cattle. In lower Taita region of Taita hills of Coastal Kenya, the pilled bulbous part of the plant is used to purify and clean dirty water. The plant is cultivated and traded as an ornamental.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenia globosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
