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Buchanania arborescens (Little gooseberry tree)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Buchanania arborescens, Little gooseberry tree, is a small and slender tree native to monsoon forests of northern Australia, south-east Asia, and the Solomon Islands. The leaves are spirally arranged, smooth, leathery, elongated oblong, 5–26 cm long. The flowers are very small cream to yellowish white. The edible fruit are globular, small (1 cm long), reddish to purple-black.These are eaten by Torresian imperial pigeons and other birds.
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Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.45

Predators

Conchaspis buchananiae[2]
Galeopterus variegatus (Sunda Flying Lemur)[3]
Nycticebus coucang (slow Loris)[4]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 3"Foraging Ecology of the Sunda Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) in Bako National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia.", Dzulhelmi, M. N.; Abdullah, M. T., Malayan Nature Journal 2009 Vol. 61 No. 4 pp. 285-294
♦ 4Behavior and Ecology of Wild Slow Lorises (Nycticebus coucang): Social Organization, Infant Care System, and Diet, Frank Wiens, Dissertation presented to the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences of Bayreuth University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences (February 2002)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0