Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum
Meliaceae FAMILY

Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum

Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The medicinal use of the bark is reported to have killed two people in Papua New Guinea[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

We have no specific information for this species, but most members of the genus are dioecious, in which case both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[1].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
  2. [2]Guide to the Trees of Papua New Guinea — Conn. B.J. & Damas. K.Q. · http://www.pngplants.org/PNGtrees/ ↩︎An Internet site giving good descriptions of the trees of Papua New Guinea.
  3. [3]Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants — http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html ↩︎An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest.
  4. [4]Philippine Medicinal Plants — http://www.stuartxchange.org/CompleteList.html ↩︎A lovely site, giving brief details on the medicinal uses of several hundred (over 400 at the last count) plants in the Philippines, plus a picture of each plant.
  5. [5]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.
  6. [6]Journal of Ethnopharmacology. Vol. 37, pp179 - 196 — Bourdy. G. & Walter. A. · Elsevier Scientific Publishers; Ireland. · 1992 ↩︎Information on various herbs used to facilitate childbirth in Vanuatu. Available to download as a PDF document from the Internet.
  7. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎