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Antidesma japonicum
Antidesma japonicum is a shrub or small tree in the Phyllanthaceae family, native to southern and eastern China, Southeast Asia and Japan. It is grown mainly for its edible fruit and as a source of firewood, and is rarely cultivated as an ornamental.
Antidesma japonicum is a shrub in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is found in Southeast Asia, China and Japan. It provides food and fuel. A. japonicum has two accepted varieties: the nominate variety, A. japonicum var. japonicum; and the robustius variety, A. japonicum var. robustius.
Growing in open forests in humid valleys of southern and eastern China, it occurs rarely in scrub on limestone, and is found at elevations of 300–1700m.
The fruit is edible and the stem and branches make excellent firewood.
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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.
