Honey bush

Scientific Name :

Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack.

Synonym(s) :

Chalcas paniculata L.

Local/Common name(s) :

Maramulla, Honey bush

Family :

Rutaceae

Habit :

Shrubs

Flowering/Fruiting Time :

Throughout

Habitat :

Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, also grown in the plains

Endemic :

No

Status (IUCN) :

Distribution :

India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Laos, Malaysia. Pacific Islands, Australia; Kerala: throughout

Nativity :

Indigenous

Uses :

Medicine, Oil, Ornamental

Description (Morphology) :

Shrubs or small trees; bark pale greyish to white. Leaves 3-7-foliolate; leaflets ovate to elliptic-ovate or rhomboid, shortly acuminate at apex, attenuate at base, glabrous. Panicles few-flowered, from the axils of upper leaves; peduncle 2-3 cm long. Calyx lobes 5, ovate. Petals 5, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, white. Stamens 10. Disc annular. Ovary 3 mm across, oblong, 2-celled; ovules 1 in each cell; stigma capitate. Berry ellipsoid, acute, red.