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Dolichos sericeus is a perennial climbing or prostrate shrub in the pea and bean family, native to tropical and southern Africa. It is a wild species of forest margins rather than a common garden plant, so care notes are general and it prefers well-drained sandy or loamy soil.
Dolichos sericeus is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a perennial climbing or prostrate shrub.
Dolichos sericeus is native to Tropical Africa, it is distributed in the horn of Africa, eastern and southern Africa and also occurring in Nigeria and Cameroon. Found in forest margins, prefers sandy or loamy soil.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dolichos sericeus 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.
