Bird Apple
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About
- Common Names
- Bird Apple
- Classification
- Shrub
- Description
- A woody shrub found in lightly wooded areas through Annexea. The bush is named because the small firm apple-like fruit does not have an adverse affect on birds which eat the fruit quite readily. The fruit forms from large clusters of white flowers, which have a slightly unpleasant scent. The leaves of the bird apple are compounded of 7 long saw toothed leaflets, with a dark green upper, and silvery underside.
Ecology
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Distribution
- Found from subtropical to arctic latitudes in woods, savanna or hills.
- Life Cycle
- Bird apple flowers in early summer, and produces fruit by early autumn.
Related Species
Uses
- Cultivation
- None.
- Culinary
- None.
- Medicinal
- :Purgative - Consumption of the small ruby-coloured fruit induces vomiting.
- Other
History
- Cultural
- Bird apple fruit find some use as decorative beads when fully dried.
- Religious
- No significant religious connections.
