Cerbera laeta

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Cerbera laeta

Description

Tree to 6 m tall. Leaves: Inflorescence 15-25 cm long, lax, many-flowered; Flowers fragrant. Sepals ovate, c. 4 by 3 mm, 1.3 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to rounded, spreading to reflexed. Stamens inserted at 5-7 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.2 of tube length; Ovaries 1.5 mm high; Fruit blue, each ellipsoid, c. 6 by 3 by 3 cm, rounded at end.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, only known from a cultivated tree in Hawaii from seed collected in Papua New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea (only known from a cultivated tree in Hawaii from seed collected in Papua New Guinea).