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In Singapore: Tit-berry, 广布异木患 (Native to Singapore, Least Concern)
Allophylus cobbe, called titberry, is a pantropical shrub or small tree of coastal and monsoon forests, often on sandy soils. It is grown mainly for traditional medicine and its edible red berries, and is not usually grown as a houseplant.
Allophylus cobbe, commonly known as titberry or Indian allophylus, is a pantropical shrub in the family Sapindaceae with many uses in traditional medicine. It has a highly variable morphology throughout its range and may prove to be more than one species.
Allophylus cobbe has a pantropical distribution, being found in tropical (and some subtropical) areas of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
Titberry has many uses in Ayurveda and other traditional medicine practices. The plant has been used as a mouthwash and to treat ulcers and wounds, bone fractures, rashes, bruises, diarrhoea, fever and stomach ache.
[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 Allophylus cobbe 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.
