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.
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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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6"/1 gal pot
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$49.95