Region: tropical Africa, Burundi, Tanania, Angola, Zambia, southern DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe.
Habitat: dry, regularly burned savannah, open woodland; elevations from 1000 to 1800 meters.
Use: as a food, young leaves, cooked as a vegetable; medicine; hair shampoo; ornamental.
BotanyType: herb, shrubby; tough; erect; branched; perennial; short, up to 90 cm tall.
Stems: more or less woody; woody rhizome
Flowers: large; showy; blue, with orange-yellow throat; rich in nectar
Propagation; by seed.