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Sapindus fruticosus R.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

ROX1407.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this species as a shrub, native of the Moluccas. According to Roxburgh, this plant was introduced, from the Moluccas, in the Botanic garden of Calcutta in 1798, where it flowers in March, and ripens its fruit in May and June. Roxburgh also writes: 'The plants are as yet (1809) but small, but with an erect trunk, covered with smoothash-coloured bark.The branches are few, weak, and much bent, even so as to be cernuus.'
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.283.

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Location

Maluku, Indonesia

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Category

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