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Landolphia heudelotii
Landolphia heudelotii is a West African climbing shrub or liana grown for its latex, which was used as rubber, and for its edible orange berries. It is usually a savanna plant rather than a houseplant, so it needs a warm, seasonally dry, sunny site.
Landolphia heudelotii is a climbing shrub or liana that is within the Apocynaceae family, it occurs in the Guinea and Sudan savannahs of West Africa and cultivated for its rubber and edible fruit. It is known as toll or boufembe.
Fruits obtained from the species showed the presence of the compounds, meta-cresol, linalool and the isomer farnesene.
Commonly occurs across the wooded Sudan and Guinea savannahs of West Africa, often found near rocky soils.
Wood is used in local carpentry work and making tool handles and doors. A decoction is used to treat diarrhea or intestinal worms in cattle, goat and sheep. Its latex was widely used in Senegal for rubber, and today, it is still used as a rubber substitute to repair bike tubes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Landolphia heudelotii 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.
