Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Acokanthera > Acokanthera oblongifolia

Acokanthera oblongifolia (Dune Poison-bush)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Acokanthera oblongifolia grows as an evergreen shrub or small tree up to 6 metres (20 ft) tall. Its fragrant flowers feature a white tinged pink corolla. Berries are purple when ripe. Vernacular names for the plant include "dune poison bush" and "wintersweet". Habitats are dry forest and coastal thickets. A. oblongifolia is used in local medicinal treatments for snakebites, itches and internal worms. The plant has been used as arrow poison. A oblongifolia is native to Mozambique and South Africa and is also found in Honduras and cultivated in Pakistan.
View Wikipedia Record: Acokanthera oblongifolia

Predators

Digama aganais[1]
Tauraco corythaix (Knysna Turaco)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0