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Purple Milletia

Adinobotrys atropurpureus

In Singapore: Tulang Daing, Purple Millettia, Jenaris, Jenerek, Tulang Dain (Naturalised in Singapore)

1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, behind Swan Lake

Purple Milletia
Photo: Wiki Farazi, CC0

Adinobotrys atropurpureus is a tropical forest tree in the pea family, native from Myanmar through Southeast Asia to Java, with dense purple flowers and long seed pods. It is a woody climber or tree of wet tropical forest, rarely grown as a garden plant outside its range.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist in the growing season, water less in cooler months, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, fertile, slightly acidic loam or peat-based mix.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Indo-China to W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Adinobotrys atropurpureus, synonym Callerya atropurpurea, is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae. It has dense, purple flowers, and seeds that are usually longer than 5 cm (2 in) in length.

[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adinobotrys atropurpureus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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