Hippobroma longiflora (L.) G.Don
Madam Fate / Kitolot (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
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Precaution
Perennial herb that can reach 60 cm tall. Leaves are alternately arranged, forming a rosette from the base, subsessile, thick, densely covered with soft straight hairs and pinnately lobed. Leaf blade is linear lanceolate or elliptic, acute at apex, attenuate at base with toothed margin. Stems are erect, simple or branching at base, glabrous or becoming hairy towards the apex and containing white sap. Flowers are fragrant, white, star- shaped and tubular. Inflorescence a solitary arising at the leaf axils. Fruit a broadly ellipsoid, hairy capsule. Seeds are many, brown and subglobose.
In tropical Africa and southeast Asia, the plant is eaten as vegetable. The seeds are used as a medicine to kill intestinal parasites in other
It is mostly found in moist or wet thickets and along streams. It prefers fertile loamy soil under full sunlight but can tolerate shade.
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Native to Central America, but now common throughout the tropics.
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