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Callichilia barteri is a forest shrub of tropical West and Central Africa, reaching about 3 m, with fragrant white flowers and yellow to orange paired fruits. It is a wild woodland species rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, so care depends on tropical forest conditions.
Callichilia barteri grows as a shrub up to 3 m (10 ft) tall. Its fragrant flowers feature a white corolla. The fruit is yellow to orange with paired follicles, each up to 5 cm (2 in) long. Its habitat is in forests. Local medicinal uses include as a treatment for gonorrhoea and as an anthelmintic and childhood laxative. Callichilia barteri is native to Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Callichilia barteri 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.
