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Adenia globosa : ウィキペディア英語版 | Adenia globosa
''Adenia globosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the passionflower family, Passifloraceae. It is native to tropical Africa, where it occurs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.〔(''Adenia globosa''. ) Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).〕 It is known as ''mpaga'' in Swahili.〔de Ruijter, A. 2007. (''Adenia globosa'' Engl. ) In: Schmelzer, G. H. and A. Gurib-Fakim (Eds.) Prota 11(1): Medicinal Plants/''Plantes médicinales'' 1. PROTA, Wageningen, Netherlands.〕 ==Description== This is a shrub or climbing plant with a warty trunk up to 8 meters tall when growing erect. It may take a shorter, wider form, becoming globular in shape and over 2 meters wide. It is usually succulent and it has thorns up to 8 centimeters long. The alternately arranged leaves are entire and triangular in shape or divided into 3 lobes. The blade is no more than 7 millimeters long. There is one gland near the base. The greenish flowers are solitary or borne in cymes of up to 5 in the leaf axils. The species is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The male flower is up to 2 centimeters long with 5 stamens, and the female flower is about one centimeter long with three styles. The fruit is a green, leathery, rounded or oval capsule up to 3 centimeters long.〔
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