Opiliaceae FAMILY

Melientha suavis

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

Since the identification of this species without flowers or fruits is very difficult, the leaves of vegetatively similar species of Opiliaceae are sometimes eaten. If leaves of Urobotrya siamensis, a species widespread in the same habitat as this species in Thailand, are eaten then these may cause death by poisoning[ 733 Title Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 Publication Author Hiepko P. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze Year 2008 ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].

Botanical Description

Melientha suavis is an evergreen tree growing up to 13 metres tall[ 451 Title Flora Malesiana Series 1 Publication Author Various Website http://www.archive.org Publisher Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch Year 0 ISBN Description A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines.

HabitatDeciduous forest, where it is locally common; rarely in dry evergreen forest; at elevations from sea level (where it grows in beach forest) up to 600 metres[ 451 Title Flora Malesiana Series 1 Publication Author Various Website http://www.archive.org Publisher Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch Year 0 ISBN Description A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet ].