Botanical name: Sterculia foetida
Common names: Peon, Indian Almond, Hazel Sterculia, Java Olive, Skunk Tree
Family: 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.
Similar plants: Sterculia foetida (Peon)
- Brachychiton australis (Broad Leaved Bottletree)
- Firmiana colorata (Colored Sterculia)
- Firmiana simplex (Chinese Parasol Tree)
- Pterygota alata (Buddha Coconut )
- Sterculia apetala (Bellota)
- Sterculia appendiculata (Mgude)
- Sterculia ceramica (Lanyu Sterculia)
- Sterculia coccinea (Shrub Sterculia)
- Sterculia lanceifolia (Lanceleaf Sterculia)
- Sterculia lanceolata (Lanceleaf Sterculia)
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