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Azima sarmentosa

Botanic Family

Salvadoraceae

Author

(Blume) Bentham & Hooker

Common Names

• Ci mo li (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• S Hainan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal forest
• thickets
• hedges

Flowering Times

• Jan-Mar (China)

Fruiting Times

Spiny erect glabrous scrambling or drooping shrub with quadrangular stem, twin prickles. Glabrous leaves 40mm x 40mm. Branched axillary & terminal racemes or panicles to 150mm with bracts, pale green or white flowers, male flowers to 3m x 3mm with 4 petals to 2.5mm long, female shorter with 4 petals, glabrous calyx to 2mm long with 4 lobes 1mm long. White or green berry 6mm across.

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine