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Quassia africana
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Quassia africana

Quassia africana

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitShrub
Growth—

A plant of the lowland, humid tropics, where it is found at elevations up to 500 metres[1].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]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.
  2. [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. [3]Antiviral activity of simalikalactone D, a quassinoid from Quassia africana. — Apers S.; Cimanga K. Et al · Planta Med. · 2002 · http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11842321 ↩︎A research paper into the antiviral activity of quassinoids present in Quassia africana. It can be downloaded from the Internet.