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Antidesma acidum is a shrub or small tree from tropical and subtropical Asia, usually 6 m tall, grown mainly for its edible sour fruit and leaves. It is shade-tolerant and naturally grows under closed forest canopy.
Antidesma acidum is a shrub or small tree that is native to an area from Java to Southwestern China and Pakistan. It is a long-lived, shade-tolerant species that is usually found under closed-canopy. The fruit is eaten in many places, the leaves in some locations. In Luang Prabang (Laos) open-air markets, the leaves are only sold alongside Russula mushrooms, to give a sour flavour to soup made from the fungi.
The species is native to an area of tropical and subtropical Asia from Java, Indonesia to Southwestern China to Pakistan and the Western Himalaya region. Countries and regions in which it grows are: Indonesia (Jawa); Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan); Laos, Myanmar; India (including Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands, Assam); Eastern Himalaya; Bangladesh; Nepal; Western Himalaya; Pakistan.
The people who live in the Phu Khiao Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum Province, northeast Thailand, in their folkloric medicine to treat fever, drink a water decoction of the root of this species.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Antidesma acidum 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.
