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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Eurycoma longifolia Jack (SIMAROUBACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Tongkat Ali

Description

Small spindly unbranched tree 6-15 m tall. Leaves to c. 100 cm long, pinnately compound with terminal leaflets, leaflets 5-10 cm long, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate. Flowers reddish, 4.5-5.5 mm across, in axillary loose branched clusters. Fruits 10-17 mm long, ellipsoid, yellow ripening red.

Ecology

Well-drained sandy soils, lowland, heath and submontane forests.

Distribution

Lower Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines and Borneo.

Uses

The roots are extracted and used in traditional medicine.