TROPICAL PLANT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Sterculia foetida
Peon, Indian Almond, Hazel Sterculia, Java Olive, Skunk TreeFamily: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Sterculioideae
Origin: Tropical Asia, Australia
Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food. Roasted seeds are edible. Seeds are above-average for angiospermous plants for the amino acids. It has unisexual flowers with a single perianth whorl constituting a valvate calyx. Female flower has anthers of vestigial stamens around the base of the stalked ovary.
See article about Sterculia foetida.
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- Brachychiton australis, Sterculia trichosiphon (Broad Leaved Bottletree)
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- Sterculia appendiculata (Mgude, Yellow barked Sterculia)
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Link to this plant:
https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/sterculia_foetida.htm
Peon, Indian almond, hazel sterculia. Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food. Roasted seeds are edible.
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Grown in
6"/1 gal pot
In stock
$49.95