Sapindaceae FAMILY

Allophylus cobbe

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

The fruits are used as a fish poison[ 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 ].

Botanical Description

Allophylus cobbe is a very variable plant, mainly a shrub but sometimes straggling or climbing with a stem up to 4cm in diameter, and more rarely a tree that can be up to 25 metres tall. Tree forms have a straight, cylindrical bole that ca be free of branches for up to 10 metres, around 30 - 60cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 1 metre high[ 388 Title Guide to the Trees of Papua New Guinea Publication Author Conn. B.J. & Damas. K.Q. Website http://www.pngplants.org/PNGtrees/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An Internet site giving good descriptions of the trees of Papua New Guinea. , 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 plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeFound throughout the tropics in S. America, Africa and through Asia to Australia and the Pacific; moving into the subtropics.

HabitatSandy beaches and coastal rocks; brackish and freshwater swamps; open places, shrubberies; along and in secondary and primarv forests of all kinds, limestone outcrops and granitic boulders; from sea level to 1,500 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 ].