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Dregea rubicunda
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Dregea rubicunda

Dregea rubicunda

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The flowers are of a faint yellowish colour and are said to have a most offensive smell that, if a person remains near it for a short time, produces a pain in the forehead with all the feelings of a cold in the head[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitClimber
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Flora of Tropical Africa Vol 1 - 8 — Var · L.Reeve & Co.; Ashford, Kent. · 1868 - 1917 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎Very little information on habitat, range and uses, but gives good descriptions of the plants. It can be downloaded from the internet.
  2. [2]Flora of Somalia — Thulin M. (Editor) · Kew Publishing, London. · 1993 ↩︎Detailed information on the plants of the region, often adding notes on the plants uses.
  3. [3]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.