Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
Calotropis procera
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Image details:
| Species id: | 145910 |
| Image id: | 16 |
| Image number: | 40744 |
| Photographer: | S Long | Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen: | 0 |
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| Code 1 if image not to be displayed: | 0 |
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Record details:
| Record id: | 120382 |
| Date: | 12 May 2023 |
| Recorder(s): | S Long |
| Collector: | |
| Determiner: | S Long |
| Confirmer: | MA Hyde |
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| Habitat: | On a mound of earth that was left on an abandoned road. |
| Location: | Near Sinamatella Camp, Hwange NP. |
| Location code(s): | 5 |
| Outing code: | |
| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Zimbabwe |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1826C2 |
| Grid reference: | |
| FZ Division: | W |
| Altitude (metres): | 981 |
| Notes: | This is the first record for the Western division of Zimbabwe. Stephen Long, the finder, reported that "the plant is growing on a mound of earth that was left on an abandoned road a couple of years ago by a DDF roads team so I'd guess the seed fell off a vehicle that had previously been working on a road somewhere in the communal lands". |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -18.689483, 26.273317 |
| Location accuracy code: | 7 |