Schefflera aromatica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Schefflera aromatica (Blume) Harms

Family: Araliaceae

• Indonesia: panggang puyu, kipuyu (Sundanese), klanting, sahang (Javanese).

Indigenous to Java (Indonesia).

The aromatic young leaves are eaten raw as vegetable. Sometimes the shrubs are planted to serve as a hedge.

• Crooked shrub or small tree, much branched, 5-12 m tall.
• Leaves alternate, digitately 5-9-foliolate; petiole 16-55 cm long, petiolules 3-13 cm; leaflets ovate, oblong to elliptical, 10-27 cm × 4-9 cm, entire to serrate, studded with fine transparent dots.

In forest and on watersides at 500-2250 m altitude. Sometimes cultivated in Java. Propagated easily from cuttings.

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