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Official name : Begonia poggei Warb
Family : Begoniaceae

1 reference(s) related to this plant

Reference HH 05
Author(s) : Hulstaert, G.
Title : -Notes de Botanique Mongo. Acad. Roy. des Sc. d'Outre- Mer, Classe des Sc. Nat. & Méd., N.S. XV-3, 212 p., (1966) + -Sur l'emploi des plantes médicinales chez les Mongo Revue de Recherche Scientifique. Spécial Medecine Traditionnelle au Zaïre + Various and scattered notes
Symptoms : H(022), H(095)
Recipes : H(022) Begonia poggei epiphytic plant is used to facilitate childbirth (Mbole) .
H(095) leaves are eaten as vegetables with fish
Region : Central Africa
Country : Congo (Democratic republic) (ex. Zaïre) (Mongo people)
Vernacular name : sèlèsélè (Bokote, Mbole), likaiyànkélé (Boende), bompima (Bokuma)