Antidesma acidum Retz.

Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Shrub

Flowering and fruiting: July-December

Flowering : April - July. Fruit ripen :cold season.

Flowering & Fruiting : March - May

Flowering: March - October Fruiting: June - January

Seeds

Seeds

8 Years

Upto 6 m tall

Shrub

A deciduous small tree or shrub, with spreading branches, young parts rusty pubescant. Leave oblong to lanceolate, glabrous, shining above and turn deep red before falling. Flowers are minute, greenish yellow Fruit small, smooth, purple and become purple red when ripe, ovoid, acute

Shrub, deciduous, dioecious, attaining upto 6 m tall, apical part densely branched; stipule 0.5 cm long, brownish-green; leaves alternate, elliptic, both adaxial and abaxial almost same colour i.e., green, apex acute, margin entire, base acute, lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, petiole 0.4 cm long, lamina 5-8 x 3-4 cm, symmetrical; male inflorescence terminal, panicled, branched at the base, upto 8 cm long, peduncle ca. 0.15 cm diameter; bracts ca. 0.1 cm long, light green, triangular; male flowers axillary, ca. 0.4 cm long, pedicel ca. 0.2 cm long, stamens 2, ca. 0.15 cm long, yellow, anther brownish, bilobed; calyx circular, reduced 4-5 lobed, coverd the circular stout disc.

Shrubs, 1 - 3 m high or rarely trees up to 15 m tall, deciduous. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate or oblong to elliptic, cuneate or acute at base, acute to apiculate at apex, (2 -) 5 – 12 (- 16) x 1.5 - 7 cm, membranous to chartaceous, glabrous above, sparsely pilose on midrib or occasionally tomentellous beneath; lateral nerves 3 - 8 pairs; petioles 1 - 5 (- 10) x 0.6 - 2 mm. Male inflorescences axillary and terminal, simple, 1 or 2 (- few)-branched, 2 - 12 cm long; bracts 0.5 - 1 mm long, ciliate. Male flowers: pedicels 0.5 - 1.5 mm long; calyx cup-shaped, 0.8 - 1 x 1 -1.3 mm; segments 4 or 5, deltoid or suborbicular, ca 0.3 x 0.5 mm; disc cushion-shaped, enclosing the bases of filaments, pubescent; stamens 2, 1.2 - 2.5 mm long; anthers ca 0.6 mm broad. Female inflorescences simple or rarely once-branched, 2 - 5 cm long; bracts as in male. Female flowers: pedicels 0.5 - 1.5 (-3) mm long; calyx urceolate, 1 - 1.5 x ca 1.2 mm; segments 4, triangular or deltoid, ca 0.5 mm long; disc annular; ovary ovoid, ca 1 x 1 mm, glabrous; styles terminal, 0.5 - 1 mm long. Fruits ellipsoid to suborbicular or often broadly oblong, somewhat laterally compressed, with short terminal persistent style at apex, 4 - 6 x 3 - 5 mm, glabrous, often white pustulate; fruiting pedicels 2 - 3 mm long.

Common in dense forest, edge of the forest

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Notes: Semi- evergreen & Moist Deciduous Forests

Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests and sacred groves

Sunny and shady places

Terrestrial: Common across India in evergreen or deciduous forests, borders of forests, scrubs, foothills and tropical Himalayan forests, Sal and bamboo forests, up to 1200 m in S. & NE. India and 1500 m on the Himalayas.

Not at risk

No threats record yet

In the middle of the forest, forest of domesticated land area

Leaves are eaten as vegetable, slightly acidic, also leaves can be preserved for later use. Fruits are acidic and edible

Juvenile leaves are eaten cooked as vegetable

Folk medicine

Medicinal