Loading

Sphaerosicyos sphaericus

Joy Adamson

National Museums of Kenya

National Museums of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya

Strong climber or trailer to 9 m.; stems herbaceous, glabrous or pubescent. Leaf-blade very broadly ovate-reniform in outline, broadly cordate, dark green and scabrid above, paler and subglabrous or sparsely to densely very shortly greyish-puberulous beneath, obscurely to distinctly and coarsely sinuate-toothed, 60–192 mm. long, 40–215 mm. broad, palmately 5-lobed; lobes triangular, ovate or elliptic, broadest or distinctly narrowed at the base, and then often themselves somewhat 3(rarely–5)-lobulate, apiculate; petiole 13–126 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous, with 2 lateral apical horn like yellow-green glands.

Show lessRead more
  • Title: Sphaerosicyos sphaericus
  • Creator: Joy Adamson
  • Location Created: Kenya
  • Provenance: Preserved at the National Museums of Kenya Archives
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: National Museums of Kenya
  • Medium: Watercolour on paper
  • Art Form: Painting
  • Subtitle: Botanical Painting
  • Collection: Joy Adamson's Collection
National Museums of Kenya

Get the app

Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more

Home
Discover
Play
Nearby
Favorites