Accession Data:
Napoleonaea beninensis Jongkind
- Common Name: Napoleonaea
- Family: Lecythidaceae Poit.
- Country of Origin: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria
- Habitat: Stream banks in dry forest and in fringing forest in the savanna zone
- Description: Shrub 2 m high to 15 m high tree. Leaves alternate; petiole 3-6 mm long; lamina 7-15 × 3-7 cm, ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate to elliptic, glabrous, with 4-7 pairs of main laterals; base rounded to acute; apex acuminate. Inflorescences cauliflorous but also between the leaves. Flowers sessile or almost so. Calyx with 5 valvate lobes. Corolla to 5 cm in diam., basal half completely dark red spreading out in star-pattern. Free outer corona rays 10 mm long, often with red tip; inner corona 15 mm long, red at base and apex, pale yellowish in between. Fruit up to 6 cm wide and 5 cm high, yellow or orange, with colourless, edible pulp.1
- USDA Zone: 10-12
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199800130
- Source: Tim Devine - CSU Chico
- Provenance:
Received as Napoleonaea vogelii from CSU Chico. Correspondence with Chad Husby at Fairchild BG in May 2015 revealed this is actually N. beninensis.
- Accession Date: 09-17-1998
- Bench: 1103 - AFR:Ground Bed 1 NE
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-18-2023
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: asterids
- Order: Ericales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Lecythidaceae
- SubFamily: Napoleonaeoideae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Ghana / Ivory Coast / Nigeria / Togo
References (external):
- Prance, Jongkind, A Revision of African Lecythidaceae, Kew Bulletin (2015) 70:6. Downloaded 20 May 2015.
- Image #00 & #03 courtesy Scott Zona, Florida International University. CC
data regenerated on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:55:32 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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Current Accessions in the Lecythidaceae
Subfamily Barringtonioideae
Subfamily Lecythidoideae
Subfamily Napoleonaeoideae
W/C = Wild Collected
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