Celosia trigyna

Tropical Africa - widespread. It is recorded as a leafy vegetable in Benin and southern Nigeria, but also in South Africa. A web site containing information about the Flora of Zimbabwe. Show All Show Tabs woolflower.

Inflorescence internodes elongate after flowering.

Uses: Fodder (whole plant). Plant beginning to flower, 2. CelostriM1_s, CelostriM2_s. Later stage of flowering. Click on image to enlarge. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 1.

Full publication details for this name can be found in . Stems erect or straggling, 0. The leaves are simple, alternate, with long-stalked triangular ovate lamina. At the base of the petioles are sickled foliaceous structures, characteristics of this species. Photo: Bart Wursten Between Nhavu bridge and 2nd bridge along road from entrance gate to Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park.

Get help with this component. Distribution Map: Based on vouchered plant specimens from wild populations. Cultivated occurrences are not mapped.

View county names by placing the cursor over the . Veterinary medicine, crushed leaves infusion applied to delouse camels. Achyranthes alternifolia L. Source: The PLANTS Database, database ( version .1). Notes: National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA.

Production data are not available. National Herbarium Search in Virtual Herbaria Austria Search in JSTOR Plant Science Search in . Unusual crescent-shaped stipule-like leaves are borne on the stem (at least when young) as well as the ordinary leaves.

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