Vaccinium gitingense (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Vaccinium gitingense Elmer

Family: Ericaceae

Vernacular names

• Philippines: pagangpang.

Distribution

The Philippines.

Uses

Fruits are edible, sweet.

Observations

• Spreading shrub, 1-3 m tall.
• Leaves ovate, 1.5-3.5 cm × 1-2 cm.
• Flowers white or red.
• Fruit a berry, up to 1 cm diameter, blackish.

On hot, dry, gravelly river beds or along streams and on ridges at low altitudes, up to 450 m.

Selected sources

• van Steenis, C.G.G.J. et al. (Editors), 1950-. Flora Malesiana. Series 1. Vol. 1, 4-10. Centre for Research and Development in Biology, Bogor, Indonesia, and Rijksherbarium, Leiden, the Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen