
Actinidiaceae FAMILY Vulnerable
Saurauia villosa
Saurauia villosa
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitShrub
Growth—
A plant of the moist tropics, where it is found at elevations from 750 - 2,700 metres[1]. The plant fruits very heavily[2].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Saurauia+villosa>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [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]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]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
- [4]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/
- [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.