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Strychnos camptoneura
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Strychnos camptoneura

Strychnos camptoneura

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The root bark, combined with the plant sap of Periploca nigrescen and sometimes other plant species, is used as an arrow poison[1]. The fruit, and the root, are both used as a fish poison[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitClimber
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
  2. [2]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎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/
  3. [3]Loganiaceae — Leeuwenberg A.J.M. & Bamps P. · Meise, Jardin botanique national de Belgique · 1979 · http://10.5281/zenodo.4569937 ↩︎This publication, along with many other from the Flore d’Afrique centrale, has been made available as a PDF document under a Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)