Leaf (1).
Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Description
Range
Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
It "is grown in plantations in Java and the kernels of the large seeds are beaten flat and fried and either eaten hot or allowed to cool and treated as potato crisps. In the main streets of Java street hawkers sell these 'crisps' from large cans carried on the end of poles" (2).Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Non-Flowering Plant Families (University of Hawaii Botany website).(2) http://www.ncl.ac.uk/dept/moorbank.html#gymn
See also:
Maheshwari & Vasil 1961.
Carlquist, S. 1994. Wood and bark anatomy of Gnetum gnemon L. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 116(3):203.
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Last modified on 3-Jan-1999