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Family: CUCURBITACEAE 
 Coccinia mildbraedii
 

Found this plant at Specks.

   
Author:  Ernest Friedrich Gilg & Hermann August Theodor Harms 1923
Family:  Cucurbitaceae
Habitat:  Eastern Tropical Africa
Soil:  Mix
Water:  Medium-Maximum
Sun:  Medium
Thickness:  20 centimetres
Height:  10 meters or more
Flower:  Yellow
Reproduction:  Seeds/Cuttings
Pop names:  -
Synonyms:  Physedra bequaertii, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman 1922
This member of the Cucurbitaceae family was described by Ernest Friedrich Gilg and Hermann August Theodor Harms in 1923. It is found in rain forests of eastern tropical Africa from Uganda south to Tanzania Malawi and Congo, growing in a well drained soil with some water to lots of and some of sun. The caudex can grow to 20 centimetres in diameter, the vines can reach for ten metres or more. The flowers are yellow.