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Tetrapleura chevalieri

Tetrapleura chevalieri

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

The fruit is used as a fish poison[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitDeciduous Tree
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - sown in a nursery seedbed or individual containers, they usually take about 6 days to germinate[2]. Pot them up into individual containers when they are about five weeks old. They can then be planted out about 3 weeks later[3].. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Tetrapleura+chevalieri>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]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/
  2. [2]World Agroforesty Centre — http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ ↩︎An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc.
  3. [3]Manual for the Propagation and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants of Ghana. — Amponsah K., Crensil O’R., Odamtten G.T., Ofusohene-Djan W. · Aburi Botanic Garden; Ghana. · 2002 ↩︎A nice, concise guide, it details some of the medicinal uses of plants from Ghana. Available as a PDF file on the Internet.
  4. [4]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
  5. [5]The Leguminosae; A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation — Allen O.N.; Allen E.K. · University of Wisconsin · 1981 · ISBN 0-333-32221-5 ↩︎An amazing and comprehensive work, giving a brief guide to the many genera of the family Fabaceae and also the principle uses of the genus.