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Cnestis corniculata
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Cnestis corniculata

Cnestis corniculata

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The leaves and fruits are covered with pungent stinging hairs[1]. The effect on the skin may be purely mechanical, but is possibly due partly at least to a brownish fluid in the cavity of the hair[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitClimber
Growth—

A plant of the lowland humid tropics[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cnestis+corniculata>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
  2. [2]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.