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Uvaria grandiflora

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

Roxburgh ex Hornemann

Common Names

• Da hua zi yu pan (Pinyin)
• Yan Nom Khwai (Thailand)
• Thabut (Myanmar)
• Pisang Pisang )Malay)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• S. Guangdong
• SE. Guangxi
• South China Sea Islands
• Hainan - China
• India
• Java
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Sabah. Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests & thickets
• coastal. woodland
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Mar-Nov (China)

Fruiting Times

• May-Dec (China)

Large scandent, sprawling or erect pubescent shrub or woody climber to 17m with glabrescent young twigs & reddish tomentose branchlets. Hirsute leaves or glabrous above & tomentose beneath to 300mm x 150mm. Solitary or leaf-opposed cymes of 120mm diameter with basal bract 30mm long & medial bract 20m long, dark red or purple fragrant flowers with yellow centre aging purplish to 110mm x 70mm, 3 sepals yellowish or brownish-green to 25mm x 20mm, 6 fleshy red, white or yellow petals aging purplish to 40mm long. Hirsute orange fruit to 60mm x 15mm & longitudinally ridged.

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• FOC
• Thai F.
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• NYBG
• Elmer
• GBS
• Wiart 2