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Mareya micrantha
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Mareya micrantha

Mareya micrantha

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The leaves and fruit are bitter and very poisonous, causing drastic purging if eaten[1, 2]. An over-dose, or criminal poisoning, will cause complete exhaustion by purging. Antidotal treatment has been reported to be red palm-oil or raw cassava[2].

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

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

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]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/