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Elateriospermum tapos
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Elateriospermum tapos

Elateriospermum tapos

Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The raw seeds usually contain cyanide and are poisonous[1]. The toxins can be destroyed by thorough cooking[1, 2].

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

A plant of the hot, humid, lowland tropics[2]. Found in the wild in deep and yellow-coloured soils, mainly clay, clay-loam, sandy clay, loam, sometimes sandstone or (silty) laterite[3]. The plant is often found in the wild in Kerangas forest - a type of moist, heath forest found on acidic, sandy soils that are low in nutrients, especially nitrogen[PFAF]. Plants can flower and fruit throughout the year[3].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]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.
  2. [2]Perennial Edible Fruits of the Tropics : an Inventory — Martin, F. W.; Campbell, C. W.; Rubertbe, R. M. · U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service · 1987 ↩︎A booklet giving terse details of almost 300 species of edible fruits, plus regional lists of Botanical and Common names for over 2,500 less well-known edible fruits of the tropics.
  3. [3]Euphorbiaceae of Malesia — http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/euphorbs/ ↩︎An online resource that is still being developed, it gives detailed botanical descriptions of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae found growing in Malesia (the region from Peninsual Malaysia through Indonesia, the Philippines).
  4. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎