Abutilon longicuspe

Plant Characteristics

Habit		shrub
Height:	⇕	150 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. to 500 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 500.
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Origin:	✈	East Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea & Sudan

Cultivation

Features:	✓	bees
Flower features:	❀	purple

Scientific Names

Abutilon >

longicuspe >

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Read about Abutilon longicuspe in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Abutilon longicuspe. White-canescent much- branched shrub, with long-acuminate broad-cordate and blunt-toothed long-stalked lvs., felt-like below: fls. bluish purple, veiny, wide open, on mostly many-branched axillary peduncles. Abyssinia.CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

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Propagation

In East Africa various species of Abutilon are grown from cuttings or by layering (Jex-Blake 1957). The plant is also grown from seed.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
• Edible wild plants of Tanzania, by C.K. Ruffo, A. Birnie,& B. Tengnas RELMA, Nairobi, 2002
• The Mountain Flowers of Southern Tanzania, by P.J. Cribb & G.P. Leedal, A.A.Balkema/Rotterdam, 1982
• Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas, by H.J. Beentje, National Museums of Kenya, 1994
• Honeybee Flora of Ethiopia, by R. Fichtl, & A. Adi, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst, Berlin, 1994
• The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, by H.M. Burkill, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. 2nd Edition, 1997
• Wild Flowers of East Africa, by M. Blundell, Collins 1994

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