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Curculigo latifolia is a stemless perennial herb from Southeast Asia that grows as a clump of broad leaves and produces edible white berries with a taste similar to dragon fruit. It thrives in humid, shaded tropical conditions, and the species is grown as a minor food plant around villages.
Curculigo latifolia, also known as tambaka, molinpasna, lamba and lemba babi, is a species of flowering plant, a stemless perennial herb in the Hypoxidaceae family, that is native to Southeast Asia and produces edible fruits.
Curculigo latifolia ranges from Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Guangdong in southern China through Indochina and central and western Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and the Philippines). It grows in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp, lower montane, and heath forests, as well as in secondary forest and areas of disturbed vegetation where it is common around villages.
[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 Curculigo latifolia 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.
