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Accession Data:

Trevesia sundaica Miq.

  • Common Name: Snowflake Aralia
  • Family: Araliaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Sumatra to Lesser Sunda Is.
  • Habitat: understory trees of evergreen forest

  • Uses: a type of "lalap", a raw green vegetable eaten with rice
  • USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199100029
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1991
  • Bench: 1203 - AUS:Ground Bed 1 NW
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 02-26-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid II
  • Order: Apiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Araliaceae
  • SubFamily: Aralioideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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2025
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References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Jawa / Lesser Sunda Is. / Sumatera

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 30 March 2105.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 30 March 2015.

data regenerated on Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:06:12 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Trevesia sundaica

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Current Accessions in the Araliaceae

Subfamily Aralioideae

  • x Fatshedera lizei
  • Hedera colchica
  • Hedera helix
  • Hedera helix
  • Hedera helix
  • Meryta balansae
  • Polyscias fruticosa
  • Schefflera arboricola
  • Schefflera emarginata
  • Tetrapanax papyrifer
  • Trevesia sundaica

Subfamily Hydrocotyloideae

  • Hydrocotyle verticillata
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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