Accession #: 198500461
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Poison Arrow Flower
Family: Apocynaceae
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Country of Origin: W. Trop. Africa to Tanzania and Angola
Description: Climbing shrub, to 12 feet or more; leaves elliptic to obovate or ovate, to 5 inches long, bluntly short-acuminate, truncate to cuneate, glabrous; flowers fragrant, sepals foliaceous, corolla white but darkening to dull lemon-yellow, strongly marked with yellow and purple in throat, tube about 5/8 inches long, basal cylindrical part purplish, as long as campanulate part, lobes very long-caudate, to 12 inches long, tails maroon, appendages in sunuses very short, obtuse, golden with purplish tips; follicles lanceolate, to 10 inches long.
Cultivation: Frost-tender plants prefer a partly shaded position and fertile, humus-rich but well drained soil. Propagate from softwood cuttings or seeds.
Uses: Medicinal uses of S. preussii include treatment of gonorrhoea and healing of sores.<sup>4</sup>. This species does not contain the cardiac glycosides found in S. gratus however.<sup>5</sup> <p> Stem fibers are used for fishing lines, nets & ropes.<sup>5</sup>
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USDA Zone: 10a-11
Source: SCE/ Logee's
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