Polyscias elegans
(Celerywood)
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FAMILY |
Araliaceae |
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Species |
Polyscias elegans |
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Common name |
Celerywood |
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Flower colour; life form |
Flowers purple; tree |
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Campus |
Campus |
Description
This tree has relatively soft wood, the pith has large pores; blaze odour of celery, nodes swollen. Leaves pinnate to bipinnate, 13-55 leaflets. Ultimate inflorescence an umbel, flowers 5-merous, petals 5, purple; ovary inferior with 2 locules. Fruit a drupe, purple to black, seeds 2.
