Alangium salviifolium (L.F.) Wangerin

Medium-sized tree or climbing shrub with rough light brown bark.. Branchlets grey-or purple-brown, often with strong spines up to 1.2 cm. long, pubescent or glabrous.. Leaves variable, cuneate or rounded at the base, rounded or acute at the apex, at first pubescent later glabrous, 3–23 cm. long and 1.4–9 cm. wide, petiole up to 1.5 cm. long; lateral nerves 3–9, venation openly reticulate, prominent below.. Flowers cream with a slight orange tinge, 5–10-merous, 13–31 mm. long, 1–17 in almost sessile inflorescences, pedicels 2–8 mm. long.. The pedicels and cylindrical buds are velvety with golden-brown hairs.. Calyx tube urceolate 0.75–2.5 mm. long, lobes triangular 0.25–1.5 mm. long.. Petals ligulate, densely pubescent outside, internally pubescent or glabrous, 12–28.5 mm. long and 1–2.3 mm. wide.. Stamens 10–32, anthers narrow, 5–14 mm. long.. Style glabrous, slightly dilated above, stigma capitate or conical, somewhat lobed, 8.5–27.5 mm. long.. Fruit ellipsoidal, shortly pubescent, 9–22.5 mm. long, one-celled.

Forests, at elevations below 1,200 metres in southern China. Lowland rainforest and riverine forest, at elevations up to 750 metres.

The ripe fruit are sweet and edible. The pulp is eaten raw. The kernel of the seed is eaten.

Plants can be grown from seeds.