Botanical name: Baccaurea ramiflora    Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Baccaurea cauliflora, Baccaurea sapida,

Burmese Grape is an evergreen tree reaching a height of about 5-10 m. Fruit is yellowish and velvety, 2-3 cm in diameter with leathery pericarp, three seeded arillus embedded in pinkish white pulp. The leaf is simple, alternately arranged. It is obovate-oblong, oblanceolate, or oblong, 9-15 x 3-8 cm in size. The leaf-stalk is 1-8 cm long with lanceshaped and fringed stipules. Flowers are small, without petals, borne in many flowered, compound racemelike panicles. Male inflorescences are densely papillose, often fascicled on branchlets as well as on trunk, up to 15 cm; bracts ovate-lanceshaped, 2-3 mm, chestnut-yellowish, finely velvet-hairy outside. Male flowers have sepals 4 or 5, oblong, 5-6 mm, finely velvet-hairy outside; stamens 4-8. Female inflorescences are up to 35 cm; bracts as in male. Female flowers have sepals 4-6, oblong-lanceshaped, about 6 mm, finely velvet-hairy outside. Burmese Grape grows in evergreen forests NE India to S China and SE Asia. Flowering: May-April.

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