Symplocaceae FAMILY

Symplocos fasciculata

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Tree

Growth—

A plant of low to moderate elevations in the moist tropics, where it can be found at elevations up to 2,200 ,metres. The plant is rather indifferent to soils in the wild, being found on latosols, sand, sandstone, black soils and seasonally swampy land^[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Symplocos+fasciculata>

Pollinators

Bees, Insects, Self

References

[1]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
[2]Revision of the Symplocaceae of the Old World; New Caledonia excepted. — Nooteboom H.P. · Universitaire Pers Leiden, Netherlands · 1975 · ISBN 90-6021-248-7 ↩︎
[3]Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6 — Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors) · Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur. · 2002 · ISBN 983-2181-27-5 ↩︎A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses.
[4]Plants of Southeast Asia — http://www.asianplant.net/ ↩︎Excellent site with brief information on the plant, its range, habitat and uses, plus phots of specimens, close-ops of flowers and leaves etc,
[5]Symplocos laurina: an unexplored important medicinal plant of Shola forest system — Banu S. & Kashyap K. · 2013 · ISBN 2249-4340 ↩︎