Carallia garciniifolia F.C.How & C.N.Ho

Species

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Characteristics

Trees to 14 m tall, resinous. Branches and branchlets grayish black when dried, thick; lenticels fusiform, conspicuous. Stipules 1.8-2.6 cm, caducous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade broadly elliptic, 10-17 × 5-9.5 cm, leathery, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or denticulate apically from middle, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Inflorescences dichasial or trichasial cymes, 3-6 cm. Flowers usually 3 or 4, sessile, crowed at apex of branchlets. Calyx campanulate, 4-5 mm; lobes 6 or 7, triangular, 1.2-1.5 × 1-1.2 mm. Petals white, orbiculate, 1.2-1.6 × 1.6-1.8 mm. Stamens 12-14, equal in length. Ovary 4-or 5-loculed; style longer than calyx, thick; stigma lobes shallow, 4 or 5. Fruit not seen. Fl. spring.
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A tree. It grows 14 m tall. The leaves are broadly oval and 10-17 cm long by 5-10 cm wide. They are leathery. The flowers are usually in groups of 3 or 4 and withouta stalk. They are crowded at the tip of the branches. The petals are white.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 14.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows between 600-1500 m above sea level in Yunnan in China. It grows in monsoonal forest and subtropical broad-leaved evergreen forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
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Edible fruits
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Distribution

Carallia garciniifolia world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:719571-1
WFO ID wfo-0000586034
COL ID R292
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Synonyms

Carallia garciniifolia