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Erythroxylum cambodianum

Family
Erythroxylaceae (Erythroxyl family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Erythroxylum cambodianum is a shrub in the family Erythroxylaceae. It grows in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. The wood is used for pickets and as firewood.

Where it grows

The species occurs in a number of countries of Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Laos (recorded from its southernmost district, Khong District),

Uses

In Cambodia the trunks are used to make pickets, the twigs are used as firewood. The stem is used in traditional medicine, while unidentified parts of the plant are used by the Kuy- and Khmer-speaking people living in the same villages of Stung Treng and Preah Vihear as a source of medicine.

Other Erythroxylum plants

Erythroxylum australe · Erythroxylum citrifolium · Coca · Erythroxylum deciduum · Erythroxylum ecarinatum · Brown Plum · Erythroxylum gracilipes · Erythroxylum incrassatum · Erythroxylum jamaicense · Erythroxylum kochummenii · Erythroxylum laurifolium · Erythroxylum macrophyllum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythroxylum cambodianum 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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