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.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Manipur.
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