VIRBOGA - Crescentia alata

Fruit; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Upper and lower surface of leaves; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Trunk with fruits; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Habit; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Identifier: 2315
Date of entry: 25.10.2014
Last update: 11.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2586)

Phylum: Tracheophyta (2483)

Class: Magnoliopsida (2101)

Order: Scrophulariales (97)

Family: Bignoniacea (19)(family description)

Genus: Crescentia (2)

Epithet: alata Kunth (6)

alata => winged, with wings

Climate: tropical

Habit: tree

Flower colour: purple, orange, yellow

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