Adenia digitata (Harv.) Engl. is a plant in the Passifloraceae family, order Malpighiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Adenia digitata (Harv.) Engl.

Adenia digitata (Harv.) Engl.

Adenia digitata is a climbing tuberous geophyte in the passionflower family, native to southern and eastern Africa.

Genus
Adenia
Order
Malpighiales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Adenia digitata (Harv.) Engl.

Adenia digitata (Harv.) Engl. is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the passionflower family, Passifloraceae. It is a climbing geophyte that grows from a tuber, and reaches a length between 0.2 and 3 meters. It is native to southern and eastern Africa, growing in an area that stretches from Tanzania and Angola to the Northern Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Photo: (c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Malpighiales Passifloraceae Adenia

More from Passifloraceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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