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Berchemia floribunda

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

(Wallich) Brongniart

Propagation

C.S.

Common Names

• Duo hua gou er cha (Pinyin)
• Tai wan gou er cha (Pinyin)
• Kuma-yanagi (Japan)
• Ō-kuma-yanagi (Japan)
• Ke-kuma-yanagi (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Henan
• Hongkong
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang-China
• India
• Japan
• Korea
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• thickets
• streamside
• evergreen forest
• montane forest.

Flowering Times

• Jul-Oct (China) Mid to late Summer Aug (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Jul (China ) Feb-Mar (Thailand)

Scandent twining or erect glabrous shrub or perennial evergreen or deciduous woody climber to 20m. Elliptic leaves to 100mm x 30mm, deep green above, whitish or yellowish with a few tufts of hair or scattered pubescence beneath, leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, apex acute. Terminal panicles or axillary racemes to 250mm of tiny yellow-green to white flowers. Fruit a spindle-shaped drupe to 10mm x 5mm, red ripening blue-black.

Edible fruit

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Chudian 2001
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• USNH
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOJ
• IFV