Danais cernua
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Danais cernua

Danais cernua

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitClimber
Growth—

A fairly variable species[1]. When the leaf tissue is damaged an unpleasant foetid odour is emitted, possibly caused by the iridoid glycoside paederoside[2].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Adansonia Vol. 16 — Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle; Paris. · 1994 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org · ISBN 0240-8937 ↩︎A botanical magazine containing a range of articles, including a revision of a section of the genus Danais. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
  3. [3]Madagascar. An Environmental Profile. — Jenkins M.D. (Editor) · World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Cambridge. · 1987 · ISBN 2-88032-607-9 ↩︎Contains a list of the Ethnobotanical uses of Madagascar plants.
  4. [4]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.