Bark
Smooth, dark grey bark with slender, flexible branchlets covered in dense, soft, silky hairs.
Debregeasia longifolia
Syn. Urtica longifolia
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
(LC)
Local name
- Orange Wild Rhea (English)
- Tusara (Hindi)
- Khargul (Marathi)
Shrub type
Evergreen
Deciduous
Family: Urticaceae
5m
Indicated uses
Medicinal
Edible
Ornamental
Avenue
Other
Flowering & fruiting
Flowering
Fruiting
Key characters
Leaves
Long, lanceolate leaves (5–15 cm) with rough, wrinkled tops and distinctly snow-white or grey woolly undersides.
Flower
Tiny, greenish-white unisexual flowers densely packed into small, round, ball-like axillary clusters.
Fruit / Seeds
Bright orange-yellow berries clustered together, resembling miniature mulberries, filled with sweet flesh and tiny seeds.
Did you know?
Known as Pheuak Meuad (“sticky bark”) in Laos and Thailand as its mucilage-rich bark powder acts as a natural binder in incense-stick production.
Distribution
China to Tropical Asia and Vanuatu.