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Tabernaemontana crassa
Tabernaemontana crassa is a plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to tropical Africa.
From the article Tabernaemontana crassa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Tabernaemontana crassa grows as a shrub or small tree up to 15 metres (50 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (12 in). Its fragrant flowers feature white to pale yellow corolla lobes.
Range & habitat
Tabernaemontana crassa is native to an area of tropical Africa from Sierra Leone east and south to Angola. Its habitat is forests or on coastlines from sea level to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) altitude.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
At the table
Tabernaemontana crassa is used in local traditional medicine as an anaesthetic, as a haemostatic, as an anthelmintic and in the treatment of rheumatism, kidney problems, rickets and conjunctivitis. It has also been used as arrow poison.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Tabernaemontana crassa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 803761.