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Actinidiaceae FAMILY

Saurauia conzattii

Saurauia conzattii

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

A plant of the moist tropics, where it can be found at elevations above 1,500 metres[1]. The plant fruits abundantly[2].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

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References

  1. [1]Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 53 — Missouri Botanical Garden · 1966 ↩︎Contains an excellent treament of a section of the genus Inga. An excellent botanical publication, available for download from the Internet.
  2. [2]Botanical Museum Leaflets Vol 8 — Harvard University; Cambridge, Mass. · 1940 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎Various articles on botany, including species of Saurauia in Mexico. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  3. [3]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/
  4. [4]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.
  5. [5]Revision of S. American Saurauria (Actinidiaceae). — Soejarto D.D. · Field Museum of Natural History: Chicago. · 1980 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org · ISBN 0015-1746 ↩︎A treatment of the S. American species in the genus Saurauia. It can be downloaded from the Internet.