
Apocynaceae FAMILY
Marsdenia verrucosa
Marsdenia verrucosa
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitShrub
Growth—
A plant of the lowland tropics, in areas with a distinct dry season, growing at elevations from sea level to around 400 metres.
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Marsdenia+verrucosa>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [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]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.
- [3]Plant Material Introduced by the Office of Foreign Plant Introduction. Inventory No. 97 — United States Department of Agriculture; Washington. · 1930 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎Details of plants and seeds imported by the US Government during the period October to December 1928, often giving some information on the species. It can be downloaded from the Internet.