Caralluma
This milkweed has the appearance of a cactus. One meter tall near Lake Baringo.
Milkweed Vine
Vine with pairs of very long, slender pods. Seed with long silky hairs. Milky sap from breaks.
Pentarrhinum
A slender vine with elliptic to heart-shaped leaves and small white and green flowers in umbels. Milky sap. Fruits have sparse fleshy projections.
Pergularia
Large, heart-shaped leaves on vine with umbels of white flowers. Fruit (not shown) with bulbs and warts.
Apple of Sodom
Large robust milkweed with big thick leaves and purple star-shaped flowers. Large globular seed pods.
Fishnet Milkweed
Many-stemmed milkweed of moist soil and having fruits covered with long, stiff, hair-like projections. Flowers pale purple.
Milkweed Shrub
Woody shrub, 2m tall with linear leaves and sparse woody stems. Rift Valley highlands on grazed, rocky slope.
Narrow-leaved Cotton-bush
The inflated fruits have a distinct beak at tip and numerous purplish hair-like appendages.