Hydnora esculenta
Hydnoraceae FAMILY

Hydnora esculenta

Hydnora esculenta

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitPerennial
Growth—

A plant of the subarid lowland tropics, where it is found at elevations below 500 metres[1].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Insects

References

  1. [1]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
  2. [2]The genus Hydnora — Old Dominion University · http://www.odu.edu/~lmusselm/plant/parasitic/hydnora_intro.php ↩︎A downloaded web page giving fairly detailed information on the parasitic genus Hydnore.
  3. [3]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.