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Triphasia trifolia (lime berry; limeberry; limon-China; demon de China; limoncito)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Triphasia trifolia (syn. Limonia trifolia Burm. f., Triphasia aurantiola Lour.; also called limeberry, lime berry, or limoncitong kastila) is a species of Triphasia in the family Rutaceae, native to tropical southeastern Asia in Malaysia, the Philippines and possibly elsewhere. Triphasias are very close relatives of citrus.
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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Scent [1]  The berries are lemon-scented;
Structure [1]  Shrub
Usage [1]  The leaves are used as an aromatic bath; The leaves are used as cosmetics; A gum runs from the stem[240], though the report does not mention any uses for this gum.
Height [1]  9.84 feet (3 m)
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Predators

Anastrepha suspensa (Caribbean fruit fly)[3]
Coccus viridis (green coffee scale)[4]
Papilio demoleus (Checkered lime swallowtail)[5]
Papilio polytes (Common mormon swallowtail)[5]
Parlatoria proteus (common parlatoria scale)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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