WorldFloraDB - Myrianthus arboreus

Characteristics

Tree up to 10 m. tall or a shrub.. Lamina ± 30 × 30 to ± 90 × 90 cm., 5–7-fid to-parted down to the petiole; segments sessile or stoutly petiolulate, margin rather irregularly (often coarsely and doubly) crenate-to serrate-dentate or-denticulate; upper surface hirtellous to puberulous on the main veins, lower surface whitish hirtellous on the main veins; petiole (15–) 25–55 cm. long, whitish hirtellous; stipules (1.5–)3–5 cm. long, whitish to pale yellow subsericeous or subhirsute.. Staminate inflorescences ± 5–30 cm. in diameter; peduncle (7–) 13–21 cm. long; glomerules of flowers spike-like, 2–4 mm. in diameter.. Pistillate inflorescences 2–3.5 cm., in fruit 6–10(–15) cm. in diameter; peduncle 2–6 cm. long; flowers ± 20–50; apex of the perianth almost flat; endocarp-body ± 1.6 × 0.7 cm.

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A medium sized tree. It grows 15-25 m tall. It branches low down. The crown is dense. The leaves are compound with leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand. There are 5-7 leaflets. Leaves are 90 cm long and 60 cm across. They are leathery and are whitish underneath. There can be teeth along the edge. The male and female flowers are separate. The male flowers are in long stalks and are yellow. The female flowers are in small balls. The fruit are large and yellow. They have 4 or 5 sided sections. Fruit can be 20 cm across. Each sections contains a hard oval seed.

A tree to 65 ft. high, with spreading branches from a short stem

Fruits yellow when ripe

Male flowers yellow

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
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Mature height (meter)	15.0
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

Secondary vegetation; more or less open places in rain-forests; damp places in forest; forest gallery and clearings; stream or lagoon and lake sides; flooded ground; sometimes in villages. At elevations from 700-1,200 metres in Tanzania.

More

A tropical plant. It grows along the edges of rain-forests. It is often near streams and in moist locations. It grows up to 1,200 m altitude but is most common below 300 m.

In forest regrowth and damp places in forest.

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Usage

The ripe fruit have a nice flavoured juice when bitten. They are eaten raw. Young leaves and shoots are eaten in soups. The seeds are eaten after cooking.

Uses	environmental use food fuel gene source material medicinal social use wood
Edible	fruits leaves nuts seeds
Therapeutic use	Diabetes (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Chest (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed. Seeds take about 1 month to germinate. Soaking seeds helps more to germinate. Plants can be grown from cuttings and by grafting. Plants can be budded. Plants can be grown from stem cuttings.

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Germination treatment	soaking
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