Simaroubaceae FAMILY

Quassia grandifolia

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Quassia grandifolia is an erect, evergreen, unbranched shrub to 3 metres tall, or a more or less straggling tree with a wide crown; it can grow up to 30 metres tall. The bole is short in specimens with a more easterly range, but long and clear, up to 60cm in diameter in the west of the range[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and pesticide.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Cote D'Ivoire to Cameroon and DR Congo, south to Angola.

HabitatForests at low elevations[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. Wet evergreen and dry deciduous forest, with comparatively few trees in intermediate types of forest[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].