PlantPeers
Back to Catalog
No image available
Urticaceae FAMILY

Laportea mooreana

Laportea mooreana

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

The plant is covered in stinging hairs[1]. Drying or cooking the leaves destroys their sting[PFAF].

Cultivation Details

HabitAnnual
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]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.
  2. [2]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.
  3. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎