Cyphostemma adenocaule

Region: tropical Africa, Senegal to Eritrea, south to Angola, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique.
Habitat: fringing forest; clearings in evergreen forest; bushland; thickets; grassland with or without scattered trees; abandoned cultivations; fallows; secondary forest; sandy river-banks; granitic rocks; rain-forest; savannah; elevations to 2650 metres.
Content: oxalic acid.Botany
Herb, perennial, climbing.
Stem: 1 to 8 metres long from a tuberous rootstock; scramble over the ground, climbing by means of tendrils
Use: leaves, cooked and fruits, raw or cooked, as a vegetable or in soups; roots, cooked or boiled, sliced, dried and pounded, stored for famine periods; medicinal; fibre, insecticide; construction material, hut building; bark fibre for strings; leave infusion as an insecticide against chicken lice; insecticide for Taylorilygus vosseleri, Cyphostemma adenocaule to protect cotton crop.