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Cup Saucer Plant
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Cup Saucer Plant
ative Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Cup Saucer Plant, Cupped Coral-berry Tree • Gujarati: કંબોઇ Kamboi • Kannada: ಅಸನ Asana, ಬಿಳೀಸುಲಿ Bilisuli, ಗೋಜೆ Goje, ಗುರಿಗೆ Gurige • Konkani: पोएं Poein • Malayalam: പെരുംനിരൂരി Perunniruri • Marathi: डाळफोडी Dalfodi, कंगळी Kangali • Nepali: सानों नुन ढिकी Sano Nun Dhiki • Sanskrit: बहुप्रज bahupraja, बहुपुष्प Bahupushpa, काम्बोजी Kamboji • Mizo: Pi-bengbeh • Tangkhul: Saksetheirong Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Breynia retusa    Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Phyllanthus retusus, Breynia patens

Cup Saucer Plant is a shrub with spreading branches. Its striking feature is it fruit, which looks like a berry kept on a saucer, or a cup kept on a saucer to many. The common names of this plant originate from this. It is a small shrub, 2 m, with spreading branches. Alternately arranged leaves, 1-3 cm, are broadly elliptic, obtuse, with a rounded tip. Flowers are unisexual, in leaf axils, on filament-like peduncles. Male flowers 1-3 fascicled, yellow; female green; sepals 6, round; styles 3, divided into two. Fruits, 1-2 cm, are slightly flattened round berries, red, with much enlarged calyx which looks like a saucer.

Identification credit: Dinesh Valke Photographed in Maharashtra.

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