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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Similar plants:

• Brachychiton australis, Sterculia trichosiphon (Broad Leaved Bottletree)
• Firmiana colorata, Sterculia colorata (Colored Sterculia, Bonfire tree, Scarlet Sterculia, Iwil-iwil, Indian Almond)
• Firmiana simplex, Sterculia platanifolia (Chinese Parasol Tree)
• Sterculia apetala, Helicteres apetala, Sterculia carthaginensis, Sterculia chicha (Bellota, Panama Tree)
• Sterculia appendiculata (Mgude, Yellow barked Sterculia)
• Sterculia ceramica (Lanyu Sterculia)
• Sterculia coccinea, Sterculia lanceolata var. coccinea, Sterculia hamiltonii (Shrub Sterculia, Kelumpang)
• Sterculia lanceifolia, Sterculia roxburghii (Lanceleaf Sterculia)
• Sterculia lanceolata, Helicteres undulata, Sterculia balansae (Lanceleaf Sterculia)
• Sterculia macrophylla (Bigleaf Sterculia, Broad-Leafed Sterculia, Kelumpang)