WorldFloraDB - Diospyros oleifera

Characteristics

Trees, to 14 m tall, deciduous, many parts gray to grayish yellow to grayish brown pubescent. Bark dark gray to grayish brown, peeling in large thin flakes to reveal ± white bark below. Branches sparsely villose to glabrescent. Petiole 6--10 mm; leaf blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rarely obovate, 6.5--17 X 3.5--10 cm, papery, base rounded to subrounded and slightly oblique, lateral veins 7--9 per side. Flowers sometimes polygamous. Male flowers in 3--5(or more)-flowered cymes, ca. 8 mm; calyx lobes 4; corolla lobes 4, ciliate. Female calyx divided to middle; corolla ca. 1.5 cm, pubescent, with 4 sparsely villous ribs; staminodes 12--14, villose; ovary densely villose. Berries dark yellow, ovoid to depressed globose, 4.5--7 X ca. 5(--8) cm, 8(--10)-locular, with soft hairs. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Oct.

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A deciduous tree. It grows to 14 m tall. Many plant parts are grey or yellow and slightly hairy. The bark peels in dark thin flakes. The leaves are oval to sword shaped and 7-17 cm long by 4-10 cm wide. They are papery and the base is rounded and slightly oblique. Male flowers are in groups of 3-5 and the female flowers occur singly. The fruit is a dark yellow berry. It is flattened and 4-7 cm by 5-8 cm. It is divided into 8-10 locules.

Life form

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Growth form

tree

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

dioecy

Pollination

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Spread

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Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

14.0

Root system

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Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

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Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

A subtropical plant.

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Usage

The fruit are eaten.

Uses	food medicinal
Edible	fruits
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Conservation status

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:322799-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000649450
COL ID	6D8P2
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
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Synonyms

Diospyros oleifera

WorldFloraDB 2024

Diospyros oleifera Cheng

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ebenaceae > Diospyros