Weinmannia tinctoria
Cunoniaceae FAMILY Critically Endangered

Weinmannia tinctoria

Weinmannia tinctoria

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

The flowers are very attractive to bees, who produce a very agreeably-scented green honey from it[1].

Propagation

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

Pollinators

Bees

References

  1. [1]Flore de L'Ile de la Reunion — E. Jacob De Cordemoy · Librairie Medicale & Scientifique; Paris. · 1895 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎Not really a flora, more a list of the plants known at that time. It often includes a brief description of habit and habitat, plus the local uses of the plants. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]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.
  3. [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. [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.