Trees & Plants

Beach plum

Magoo, Geraa

Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.)

Very common among coastal vegetation Roxb. The shrub is often planted to prevent coastal erosion. The fragrant flowers and seeds are used to make garlands. In traditional medicine, the plant is used as an antidiabetic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and as a skeletal muscle relax

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uses: The shrub is often planted to prevent coastal erosion. The fragrant flowers and seeds are used to make garlands. In traditional medicine, the plant is used as an antidiabetic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and as a skeletal muscle relaxant. Juice of the fruit is soothing and refreshing for inflamed eyes. Th reat & damage: The plant can form dense thickets on sand dunes and compete or with native coastal vegetation. Its growth in coastal areas can end up in an increased flow of sediments and nutrients to the sea 5, due to dune destabilization. Spread of the weed is mainly through fruits and stem segments dispersed through ocean currents.
family: Goodeniaceae
synonym: Scaevola sericea Vahl., Lobelia taccada Gaertn. are
description: Shrubs; stem greenish- white. Leaves simple, alternate, spirally Th × arranged, rarely opposite, 8-15 4-7 cm, obovate. Flowers white in axillary cymes, or solitary; bracts opposite. Calyx epigynous; in tube adnate to ovary; limb cupular, short, fl 5-dentate or 5-lobed. Corolla lobes 5, posterior side longitudinally divided near to the base, subequal. Fruit a drupe, white, often fleshy; endocarp hard; each locule with 1 seed.
native range: Tropical and subtropical coasts of Indo-Pacific region Distribution Indo-Pacific region, America and the Caribbean
english names: Beach plum · Fan flower
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Very common among coastal vegetation Roxb.