Randia armata
Rubiaceae FAMILY

Randia armata

Randia armata

Edibility
1/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

The fruit is said to have been used for stupefying fish[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitDeciduous Tree
Growth—

A tree of the tropical lowlands, found in dry to wet forests[2].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Flora of Guatemala — Standley P.C. & J. A. Steyermark · 1946 - 1976 · http://www.archive.org/ ↩︎A superb reference, though somewhat dated. Gives lots of plant uses as well as information on plant habit and habitat. The entire flora (13 volumes) can now be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/
  2. [2]Flora of Barro Colorado Island — Croat. Thomas B. · Stanford University Press · 1978 · http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home · ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 ↩︎A very good flora of an area in Panama. Written some years ago, so some of the names have been changed. The book is out of print, but the whole flora is now available on the web.
  3. [3]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.
  4. [4]Lost Crops of Africa. Vol. 1 Grains. — National Academy Press · 1996 · ISBN 0-309-04990-3 ↩︎Masses of information on about 70 species of plants that have been utilized for their edible seeds in Africa.