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Fockea multiflora
Also called Elephant Vine, Giant Kambro, Python Kambro, Python Kambroo
Fockea multiflora, or python vine, is a plant of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, native to Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, including the Caprivi Strip,
and Malawi. It is a large semisucculent liana, growing to some 15m in length and up to 60 cm in diameter, found primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Growing in the altitude range of 600–1000 m, Fockea multiflora occurs on low hills or among rocks around the base of hills in dry, open, often deciduous woodland or scrub, especially mixed Acacia-Commiphora-Balanites or mopane woodland. It does not tend to occur in more mesic miombo woodland dominated by Brachystegia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fockea multiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
