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8: Vegetables

Acalypha caturus Blume

EUPHORBIACEAE

Indonesia: hanjawan (West Java), goprak (Java), kalangkongan (Madura), kayu in cios (Sulawesi). Philippines: malasapsap (Tagalog), ambugtunong (Bisaya), migtanong (Bicol).

Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Moluccas), Borneo and the Philippines. Possibly also in New Guinea.

In the Minahasa (Sulawesi) cooked leaves are eaten.

Shrub or small dioecious tree, 5—14 m tall. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate or triangular, 7.5—27 cm x 3—22 cm. In mixed or young forest and in plantations of tree crops like coffee, up to 1400 m altitude.

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[44]Heyne, K., 1927. De nuttige planten van Nederlandsch Indië [The useful plants of the Dutch East Indies]. 2nd edition. 3 volumes. Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel in Nederlandsch Indië. 1953 pp. (3rd edition, 1950. van Hoeve, 's-G

M.H. van den Bergh

Van den Bergh, M.H., 1993. Acalypha caturus Blume. In: Siemonsma, J.S and Piluek, K (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 8: Vegetables. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea