WorldFloraDB - Wrightia arborea

Characteristics

Trees to 20 m tall. Branches gray or brown, pubescent, lenticellate. Petiole 2-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic to broadly so or obovate, 6-18 X 3-8.5 cm, pubescent to glabrescent adaxially, tomentose abaxially; lateral veins 10-15 pairs. Cymes pubescent; peduncle to 2 cm. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm. Sepals ovate or broadly so, ca. 3 mm. Corolla yellowish, pinkish, or salmon, rotate or subrotate; tube 3-7 mm, glabrous; lobes narrowly elliptic to ovate, 0.8-1.6 cm, papillate; corona scales 10, shorter than anthers, glabrous inside, apex dentate. Ovaries connate. Follicles connate, cylindric, 14-21 X 3-4 cm, lenticellate. Seeds linear-fusiform, ca. 2 cm, coma ca. 3.5 cm. Fl. May-Oct, fr. Aug-Dec. 2n = 22.

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A tree. It grows 20 m tall. The branches are grey and hairy. The leaves are oval and 6-18 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. The flowers are pink or yellow. The fruit are straight and rough with white specks.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

tree

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

20.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

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

Fruit color

Fruiting months

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

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in deciduous or mixed forests and along stream banks between 200-1,500 m above sea level in southern China.

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Deciduous forest and thickets, often along streams, on sandy or rocky soils, at elevations up to 1,650 metres.

Light	-
Soil humidity	-
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The young tender leaves are boiled and eaten. The fruit are eaten raw.

Uses	dye environmental use material medicinal timber wood
Edible	fruits leaves
Therapeutic use	Anthelmintics (bark), Antineoplastic agents (bark), Antipyretics (bark), Astringents (bark), Dysentery (bark), Flatulence (bark), Hemorrhoids (bark), Kidney diseases (bark), Liver diseases (bark), Menstruation (bark), Menstruation disturbances (bark), Skin diseases (bark), Anthelmintics (leaf), Antipyretics (leaf), Astringents (leaf), Diarrhea (leaf), Dysentery (leaf), Flatulence (leaf), Hemorrhoids (leaf), Liver diseases (leaf), Skin diseases (leaf), Toothache (leaf), Anthelmintics (seed), Antipyretics (seed), Astringents (seed), Dysentery (seed), Disorder of ejaculation (seed), Flatulence (seed), Hemorrhoids (seed), Liver diseases (seed), Skin diseases (seed), Ache(Stomach) (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hemorrhage (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified), Renitis (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Dysmenorrhea (unspecified), Toothache (unspecified), Colic (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°)	22 - 32
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

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Leaf

Flower

Distribution

Conservation status

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:82831-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000334509
COL ID	5C3N5
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Nerium coraea Beaumontia wallichii Wrightia wallichii Nerium tomentosum Periploca arborea Wrightia arborea Wrightia coalita Wrightia coraia Wrightia hamiltoniana Wrightia rheedei Wrightia tomentosa Echites vestitus Chonemorpha vestita Echites tomentosus Hunteria eugeniifolia Wrightia mollissima Wrightia mollissima Wrightia pubescens

Lower taxons

Wrightia pubescens subsp. pubescens

WorldFloraDB 2024

Wrightia arborea (Dennst.) Mabb.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Wrightia