
Clusiaceae FAMILY
Moronobea coccinea
Moronobea coccinea
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
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=Moronobea+coccinea>
Pollinators
Parakeets
References
- [1]Fruits of the Guianan Flora — van Roosmalen. M.G.M. · Institute of Systematic Boyany, Utrecht University; Netherlands. · 1985 · ISBN 90-9000988-4 ↩︎Terse descriptions of over 1,700 species from the Guianas that bear fruits - not necessarily edible! Often mentions if the fruit is edible, plus gives brief description of habit and habitat.
- [2]Tropix 7 — CIRAD · http://tropix.cirad.fr/en ↩︎An on-line guide to the timbers of 245 species of trees.
- [3]Illustrated Guide to the Trees of Peru — Pennington, T.D.; Reynel, C. & Daza, A. · David Hunt; Sherbourne, England. · 2004 · ISBN 0 9538134 3 6 ↩︎A very terse guide to the trees of Peru, managing to give basic guides to a large number of genera, with more detail on a few species in each genus.
- [4]Medicinal Plants of the Guianas — DeFilipps, R. A.; Maina, S. L.; & Crepin, J. · Smithsonian Museum · http://botany.si.edu/bdg/medicinal/index.html ↩︎A down-loadable PDF document of a book in pre-publication awaiting illustration. An excellent, if rather terse, guide to the traditional medicinal uses of the plants of the region
- [5]Vegetable Gums and Resins. — Howes. F. N. · Faber · ISBN 81-88818-17-8 ↩︎A very good book dealing with the subject in a readable way.
- [6]Current Science Vol. 87 — Balaram P. (Editor) · Indian Academy of Sciences · 2004 · http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/ ↩︎Contains a short artcle on some Piper species from the Andamans. Available online.
- [7]Botanical Museum Leaflets Vol 17 — Harvard University; Cambridge, Mass. · 1957 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎A series of articles, often covering the ethnobotanical uses of plants in the Americas. It can be downloaded from the Internet.