Tetrastigma harmandii (PROSEA)
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Tetrastigma harmandii Planchon
- Family: Vitaceae
Vernacular names
- Philippines: ayo (Tagalog), alupidan (Bisaya), arinat (Ilokano)
- Cambodia: kântoop
- Laos: h'un hnhaïx
- Vietnam: day tu'thu.
Distribution
The Philippines, Indo-China.
Uses
Fruits are sour but edible; fruits and leaves also used as condiment; the stems produce a poor kind of rope. A decoction of the plant is used internally as a diuretic, externally it is applied against scabies.
Observations
Woody vine with simple tendrils and compound leaves with 3-7 leaflets. Fruit a subglobose berry, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter, brownish, in clusters of 4-15. It grows in thickets at low and medium altitudes.
Selected sources
8, 83.
