Saba comorensis
Summary 2
Saba comorensis, the bungo fruit (pl. mabungo), mbungo, or rubber vine is a plant, which grows in Tanzania, for example on the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean. The species belongs to the genus Saba from the Apocynaceae family. The fruit looks similar to an orange with a hard orange peel but when opened it contains a dozen or so pips, which have the same texture as a mango seed with the fibres...
Description 3
Robust liane with tendrils, climbing up to 30 m. Branches smooth with conspicuous lenticels, hairless, milky sap present. Leaves opposite, elliptic to ovate, up to 20 cm long, hairless, fairly thinly textured, bright green, slightly paler below. Flowers in dense terminal heads or more lax heads on the tendrils, large, showy, white, sweetly scented. Fruit spherical, up to 6 cm in diameter, yellow to orange when ripe, edible.
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- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_comorensis
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30285632
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- African Plants - a photo guide
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- World Flora Online
