Accession Data
Sauropus androgynus
Common Name: Sweet Leaf, Star Gooseberry, Katuk
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Country of Origin: Trop. & Subtrop. Asia
Description: A shrub with long upright or falling over principal trunks reaching up to 3.5 m in height, but is kept much lower in cultivation. It has side branches appearing to be pinnately divided branches, but with rose to carmine radiate flowers on the underside, a white or pinkish fruit opening at ripening to release three black seed. 1
Uses: Tender young shoots and stripped leaves, often together with the flowers and fruits, are consumed as cooked vegetables or as raw greens. Consuming large quantities of raw plant material can cause serious lung damage. Leaves are used for dying food and they can also be used as feed for cattle and poultry. The small, white fruits are sometimes comfited into a sweetmeal. Leaves and roots have medicinal properties. It can be planted as a living fence.1
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 9-11?
Accession #: 201200024
Accession Date: 2012-03-29 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1208
Quantity: 2
Source: Kartuz Greenhouses
Culture: warm, humid environment, never dry, prefers shade
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosid I
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
SubFamily: Phyllanthoideae
Tribe: Phyllantheae
SubTribe: Flueggeinae
Flowering Data:
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References
- FAO EcoCrop website - visited 29MAR2012
- The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 14 November 2013).
- Germplasm Resources Information Network - GRIN - visited 25MAR2013
- WCSP (Current Year). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
- Sauropus androgynus at Wikispecies. Accessed November 14, 2013
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