Casearia tomentosa

Safety & Hazards

The bitter-tasting fruit juice is used as a fish poison[ 372 Title Flowers of India Publication Author Website http://www.flowersofindia.net/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars. , 1713 Title Ethnobotanical Studies of Useful Trees of District Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Publication Biologia (Pakistan) 2014, 60 (1), 63-71 Author Muhammad Ajaib & Zaheer-Ud-Din Khan Publisher Year 2014 ISBN 2313-206X Description , 1726 Title Casearia Tomentosa: A Potential Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Source Publication J.Chem.Soc.Pak., Vol. 37, No. 04, pp 811-816, 2015 Author Ajaib M. et al Publisher Year 2015 ISBN Description ]. The fruit is a capsute containing several seeds - although the capsule of some species (and possibly also the seeds contained therein) is somewhat toxic, the fleshy aril surrounding the seeds is a different matter and in some species (see information below on edibility to see if this is one of them) is often eaten and is considered to be perfectly wholesome[ 1438 Title Food Plants in the Americas: A Survey of the Domesticated, Cultivated, and Wild Plants Used for Human Food in North, Publication Author Kermath B.M.; Bennett B.C.' Pulsipher L.M. Publisher Year 2014 ISBN Description A pre-publication draft of an amazing, on-going work first started in 1985. It contains information on more than 3,900 taxa from the Americas - from Arctic regions to the Tropics , K Title Plants for a Future Author Ken Fern Description Notes from observations, tasting etc at Plants For A Future and on field trips. ].