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Aporosa octandra is a variable tree or large shrub in the Phyllanthaceae family, native from southern China and India through Southeast Asia to Queensland. It grows best in warm, humid tropical conditions and is mainly valued for its timber, dye and edible fruit rather than as an ornamental.
Aporosa octandra is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae found from Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea to Indonesia, China and India. It is a highly variable plant with 4 named varieties. Its wood is used in construction and to make implements, its fruit is edible. The Karbi people of Assam use the plant for dyeing.
The species is found in from Queensland, Australia to New Guinea, through Southeast Asia to southern China and India. Countries and regions in which it is native to include: Australia (Queensland); Papua New Guinea; Indonesia (West Papua, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Java, Sumatra); Philippines; Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak, Peninsular Malaysia); Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; China (Hainan, South-Central, Southeast); Laos; Myanmar; India (Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttarakhand); Bangladesh; East and West Himalaya; Bhutan; Nepal.
The tree/shrub provides fodder for domesticated animals, timber for house construction (particularly house-posts), wood for fuel. The bark yields a red dye, while a decoction of the leaves is used to dye clothes black in northeast India. The fruits are edible. The bark is chewed as a kind of betel In India, the wood (called kokra or coco wood) is used, it is described as durable, hard and close-grained. It is used in construction, and for house-posts, rafters, rice pounders, and furniture.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aporosa octandra 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.
