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Erythropalum scandens

Botanic Family

Olacaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Brunei
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• S. Guizhou
• Hainan
• SE Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra
• Talaud Islands - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• mixed forest streamside
• thickets
• montane woodland
• forest
• lowland & hill forest. Edible flowers shoots
• also young leaves & stem

Flowering Times

• Mar-Sep (China)
• Aug-Sep (Thailand) May Apr-Jun (Laos)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Sep May (Philippines)

Glabrous perennial evergreen slender woody liana to 10m or tree with simple or bifid tendrils, lenticellate branches. Glabrous peltate leaves glaucous beneath to 250mm x 150mm, fetid when bruised. Axillary cymes, long racemes or corymbs to 150mm long of 5mm white to yellow-green flowers, 5-toothed calyx, 5 glabrous petals. Fruit a glaucous drupe to 40mm long, red, crowned by persistent bright red calyx lobes, when ripe splitting to reveal blue seeds.

Further References

• FOC
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• ASEAN
• Fsing
• NYBG
• FS
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• IFV