Eurycoma longifolia Jack

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Simaroubaceae > Eurycoma

Characteristics

A shrub It can grow 10 m tall. The leaves are compound with 30-40 leaflets.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 9.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.65
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Frequent at low elevations in beach forests on sandy soil; an understorey in primary and secondary forest; mixed dipterocarp rain-forest; heath forest; low forest on ridge crests; on sandstone and dry kerangas, rarely to 500 or even 1,000 metres.
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It is a tropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses material medicinal
Edible leaves roots
Therapeutic use Antipyretics (bark), Antipyretics (root), Hemolysis (root), Antidysentery (unspecified), Bones (unspecified), Dullness (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Headache (unspecified), Indigestion (unspecified), Parturition (unspecified), Smallpox (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Ache(Stomach) (unspecified), Syphilis (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified), Itch (unspecified), Intoxication (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Wound (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 20 - 30
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Eurycoma longifolia world distribution map, present in Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:813715-1
WFO ID wfo-0000683346
COL ID 3D3S8
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Picroxylon siamense Manotes asiatica Eurycoma latifolia Eurycoma longifolia Eurycoma merguensis Eurycoma tavoyana Eurycoma longifolia var. cochinchinensis

Lower taxons

Eurycoma longifolia subsp. eglandulosa