Buchanania arborescens

taxobox
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Sapindales
familia = Anacardiaceae
genus = "Buchanania"
species = "B. arborescens"
binomial = "Buchanania arborescens"|

"Buchanania arborescens", Little gooseberry tree, is a small slender tree native monsoon forests of northern Australia, south-east Asia, and the Solomon Islands.

The leaves are spirally arranged, smooth, leathery, elongated oblong, 5-26 cm long. The flowers are very small cream to yellowish white. The edible fruit are globular, small (1 cm long), reddish to purple-black.

Uses

Aboriginal people eat the fruit raw. The plant is also used as a traditional medicine in Australia and Malaysia. [Brock, J., "Top End Native Plants", 1988. ISBN 0-7316-0859-3]

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