Trees & Plants

Lime berry

Kudhilunboa

Triphasia trifolia (Burm.f.) P.

Common in natural habitat as an under shrub. As an ornamental and hedge plant. Fruits edible, used either raw or cooked. Fruits can also be pickled or made into of jams. The leaves are known to be anti- et fungal and antibacterial and used to treat colic, diarrhea and skin diseas

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uses: As an ornamental and hedge plant. Fruits edible, used either raw or cooked. Fruits can also be pickled or made into of jams. The leaves are known to be anti- et fungal and antibacterial and used to treat colic, diarrhea and skin diseases. Th reat & damage: An invasive plant which 3 can grow in open and shaded areas forming impenetrable spiny thickets. Spread of the weed is through seeds which are mainly dispersed by birds. The plant can smother and outcompete native plants for light and water.
family: Rutaceae
synonym: Limonia trifolia Burm. f.
description: Shrub to small trees, twigs terete, bearing paired spines in the axils of leaves. Leaves 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet ovate, base cuneate, apex emarginate, 2-4 × 1.5-2 cm; lateral leaflets much smaller, × Th 1-2-2 0.8-1.2 cm; petiolules 1.5-2 cm; petioles 3-5 mm. Flowers singly or 2 or 3 in the axils of the leaves; peduncles short; × flower buds cylindrical, 10-12 3-4 mm. Flowers 3-merous. Sepals small, 1.5-2 mm long, 3-lobed, green, persistent. Petals white, × 10-13 3.6-4.5 mm. Staminal filaments slender. Disk annular or short-cylindric. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, sometimes apiculate, 1.2-1.5 cm long, dull reddish- orange or crimson when ripe; rind with many small oil glands; seeds 1-3, immersed in mucilaginous pulp.
native range: Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Christmas Islands P. Wilson
distribution: In the tropics and subtropics
english names: Lime berry · Myrtle lime
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Common in natural habitat as an under shrub.