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Elaeagnus conferta

Botanic Family

Elaeagnaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• Zhang ye hu tui zi (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Guangxi
• Yunnan - China
• Andaman Is.
• Assam
• Nicobar Is. - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• streamside in evergreen forest
• coastal
• bamboo forests
• hill forest. Edible fruit
• medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Mar Sep-Oct (Thailand)
• Oct-Noc (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (Thailand)
• Feb-Mar (China)

Perennial evergreen liana to 12m, or straggling spiny shrub, occasionally erect tree, with spiny glabrescent stems, subcoriaceous leaves to 180mm x 60mm glabrous or glabrescent above silvery-white beneath. Up to 8 flowered axillary spikes or fascicles with bracts to 3mm long, of silvery-brown or yellowish-grey 8mm long flowers, flowers tube to 2mm long, flowers 8mm long & hairy with lobes to 3mm long villous inside, red-ferrugineous drupe 35mm x 15mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• net
• FOC
• Flora Malesiana
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• GBS