Baliospermum solanifolium
Euphorbiaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Baliospermum solanifolium

Baliospermum solanifolium

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
3/5

Safety & Hazards

A popular medicinal herb, Baliospermum solanifolium needs to be used with caution since it is a drastic purgative. In larger doses the seeds are an acro-narcotic poison[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitShrub
Growth—

Plants are usually monoecious, but dioecious forms are also found at times[2].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-19. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Baliospermum+solanifolium>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Indian Medicinal Planta — Kirkitar K.R.; Basu B.D. & Indian Civil Service · Sudhindra Nath Basu, BahadurGanj; India · 1918 ↩︎
  2. [2]Flora of China — Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. · 1994 · http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ ↩︎An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available.
  3. [3]Flowers of India — http://www.flowersofindia.net/ ↩︎A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars.
  4. [4]A Revision of the Genus Baliospermum Bl. (Euphorbiaceae) for the Indian Subcontinent — Chakrabarty T. & Balakrishnan N.P. · 1990 ↩︎
  5. [5]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
  6. [6]Survey of Ethnomedicinal Plants and Folklore Studies on Malayali Tribals of Vellakadai Village a part of Shervaroy R — Vaidyanathan D., Sisubalan N & M. Ghouse Basha · 2014 · ISBN 0976-3031 ↩︎
  7. [7]Dictionary of Economic Plants. — Uphof. J. C. Th. · Weinheim · 1959 · ISBN - ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.
  8. [8]Indian Medicinal Plants; An Illustrated Dictionary — Khare C.P. (Ed.) · Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg · 2007 · ISBN 978-0-387-70637-5 ↩︎