Icacina trichantha
Region: western tropical Africa, Nigeria.
Habitat: forest and jungle vegetation.
Culture: a weed of rice-paddies
Use: root cooked as food, in soup; medicines; tuber for fuel, giving a fierce heat, as to be unapproachable.
Botany
Small shrub; climbing stems; up to 2 metres long; from a very large tuber.
Root: large; yam-like
Content: alkaloid; benzophenones.
Fruit: drupe; 25mm long; soft sweet outer pulp.
Medicinal
Action: aphrodisiac.
General: soft tumours
Lieterature
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