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Cayratia mollissima
Cayratia mollissima
- Botanic Family
- Vitaceae
- Author
- (Wallich) Gagnepain
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Borneo
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Xizang
- Yunnan - China
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- S.E. Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Laos
- Johore
- Kelantan
- Pahang
- Perak
- Perlis
- Sarawak - Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- forest edge
- lowland & hill forest
- shrubland
- woodland
- swamp forest
- hillock forest
Flowering Times
- Jan
- May
- Jul
- Oct
- Jan-May (China) May-Jul (Vietnam)
Fruiting Times
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- May-Nov (China) Sep (Vietnam)
Slender climber-creeper with bifid or trifid tendrils, angular glabrescent stems with long stiff hair. Whitish -pubescent toothed 3-foliolate dentate leaves villous on nerves, mid leaflets to 100mm long. Axillary villous corymbs to 50mm across, 160mm across in fruit. Villous calyx & petals, 4-5 mealy white petals to 3mm long. Light green to pinkish white or red fruit to 20mm diameter
Fruit irritant on eating
Edible fruit
Further References
- Mobot
- WFO
- USNH
- F Indochine
- GBS
- FS
- Botanicus
- FOC
- Jstor