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Prunus grisea, known as lago, is a tree or shrub of the rose family found across tropical Asia and Melanesia, reaching up to 35 m tall. It is grown mainly as a forest or timber tree, and the key to growing it is warm, humid tropical conditions.
Prunus grisea, most commonly known as lago, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, and is endemically distributed throughout East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as parts of Melanesia, spanning over many countries.
Prunus grisea is found across a very wide range, encompassing many regions. In Malesia, it is present throughout its near entirety, where it occurs most notably in Bohol, Borneo, Cebu, Java, the Kangean and Lesser Sunda Islands, Leyte, Luzon, the Maluku Islands, Mindanao, Mindoro, New Guinea, Palawan, Sibuyan, Sulawesi, and Sumatra. The presence of Prunus grisea within Indochina extends to Cambodia, Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Other countries in Asia include Afghanistan, China, where it occurs in Guangdong and Yunnan, along with India, Japan, and Taiwan. Outside of Asia, the plant has been introduced to Guinea, the Hawaiian Islands, Queensland, and the United Kingdom.
Studies on Prunus grisea indicate that its bark and leaves possess antioxidant and cytotoxic properties, with traditional uses including bark applications for skin irritation and leaves for rheumatism relief. Research evaluating its leaf decoction and various extracts has shown potent antioxidant activity, particularly in the decoction, which exhibited a 92.85% antiradical activity at 500 ppm, along with high total antioxidant capacity and phenolic content. Toxicity assessments using the brine shrimp lethality assay revealed that the chloroform extract had the highest toxicity, with an LC50 value of <10 ppm, while bioassay-guided fractionation of air-dried leaf hexane extracts identified PGH13 as the most bioactive fraction, demonstrating 56.67% mortality against Artemia salina.
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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.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
