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Urn Fruit Beauty Berry

Callicarpa macrophylla

Urn Fruit Beauty Berry
Photo: Jayesh Patil, CC BY 2.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Safety
Toxic
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Callicarpa macrophylla is a species of beautyberry native to the Indian subcontinent. Its fruits are small white drupes.

Uses

The fruit is edible and can be eaten raw when it ripens. The seeds are poisonous. The leaves can also be used to make a herbal drink or as decorations.

Other Callicarpa plants

Callicarpa acuminata · American beautyberry · Caparosa · Bodinier's beautyberry · Great Wooly Malayan Lilac · Callicarpa cathayana · Purple beautyberry · Callicarpa erioclona · Callicarpa giraldii · Japanese callicarpa · Callicarpa kwangtungensis · Callicarpa lamii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Callicarpa macrophylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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