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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Bridelia insulana Hance (PHYLLANTHACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Kenidai

Description

Small tree to 18 m tall. Leaves 5-20 cm long, oval to elliptic. Flowers cream or pale yellow in dendse clusters at leaf axils. Fruits 0.6-1.2 cm long, orange-pink ripening red to purple then black, elllipsoid to ovoid.


Ecology

Lowland evergreen forests, often near streams.

Distribution

Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, throughout Malesia to NE Australia and Solomon Is.