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Alangium salviifolium

Botanic Family

Cornaceae

Author

(Linnaeus f.) Wangerin

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Alangi (India)
• Angolam (India)
• Cây choi moi (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Comoros Islands
• Guangdong
• Guangxi - China
• India
• Kenya
• Laos
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Lowland forest.

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (India)

Fruiting Times

Liana, small tree or rambling shrub, glabrous spiny branches velvety when young, spines to 12mm. Coriaceous leaves to 230mm x 90mm glabrous above, tomentose beneath. Leaf-opposed fascicles or umbels of 1-17 50mm white or yellow flowers sometimes with an orange tinge, hairy calyx, calyx tube 2.5mm long with lobes to 1.5mm, 6-10 petals to 28.5mm x 2.3mm woolly without, becoming glabrous. 22.5mm long sparsely pubescent fragrant dark red drupe.

Medicinal uses, edible fruit

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Mobot
• FOC
• JDH
• BF
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• GBS
• Kew
• FTEA