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Boraginaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Cordia aurantiaca

Cordia aurantiaca

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Tree
Growth—

Trees can be coppiced and pollarded[1].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Cataloge of African Plants Collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853 - 1861 — Hiern. W.P. · Longmans & Co.; London. · 1898 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎In 6 volumes, it gives botanical descriptions and some uses of the plants. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]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/
  3. [3]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.
  4. [4]The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. — Huxley. A. · MacMillan Press · 1992 · ISBN 0-333-47494-5 ↩︎Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed.
  5. [5]Fruits of the Guianan Flora — van Roosmalen. M.G.M. · Institute of Systematic Boyany, Utrecht University; Netherlands. · 1985 · ISBN 90-9000988-4 ↩︎Terse descriptions of over 1,700 species from the Guianas that bear fruits - not necessarily edible! Often mentions if the fruit is edible, plus gives brief description of habit and habitat.
  6. [6]Two new species of Cordia L. (Boraginaceae) from Madagascar — Miller J.S. · 2001 ↩︎