Opilia amentacea
Opiliaceae FAMILY

Opilia amentacea

Opilia amentacea

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The stem and leaves are used as fish poison[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Climber
Growth—

The plant appears, at times, to be parasitic upon the roots of other plants[2].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 — Hiepko P. · Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze · 2008 · http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb · ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 ↩︎An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
  3. [3]Edible Wild Plants of Tanzania — Ruffo, C.K.: Birnie, A. & Tengnas, B. · Regional Land Management Unit; Nairobi. · 2002 · ISBN 9966-896-60-0 ↩︎A very well presented, simple guide to growing and utilizing wild food plants in Tanzania, with line drawings of each plant, a description, habitat and range, non-food as well as food uses, plus basic information on growing the plants.
  4. [4]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.
  5. [5]Antimicrobial Activity of Tanzanian Chewing Sticks Against Oral Pathogenic Microbes — Maryam N. Khan, Olipa Ngassapa & Mecky I.N. Matee · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1076/1388-0209(200007)3831-SFT235 ↩︎