Spot Characters (5)

Spot Characters (5):

White Fruits

Spot Characters 5 :

White Fruits

 Most fruits ripen in shades of yellow, red or purple (black)

 Comparatively fewer species have fruits that ripen white

Coix lacryma-jobi Donax canniformis (Job’s Tears)

© Plant Information Unit, National Parks Board 1 Examples of plants recorded from Singapore: Taxon that are recorded from Singapore (Native) *Listing is non-exhaustive Family Genus Boraginaceae Tournefortia (in part) Chloranthaceae Chloranthus Goodeniaceae Scaveola taccada Hernandiaceae Hernandia (in part) Hanguanaceae Hanguana (in part) Hernandiaceae Hernandia (in part) Lamiaceae Callicarpa (in part) Marantaceae Donax, Schumannianthus Meliaceae Dysoxylum (in part) Moraceae Ficus (in part) - Figs Myrtaceae Syzygium (in part) Ochnaceae Euthemis leucocarpa Pandaceae Galearia (in part) Phyllanthaceae Baccaurea (in paert) Poaceae *Coix lacryma-jobi Primulaceae Maesa (in part) Lasianthus (in part), Morinda (in part), Mycetia, Rubiaceae Oldenlandia cristata, Prismatomeris (in part), Psychotria (in part) Stemonuraceae Gomphandra (in part), Stemonurus (in part), Torricelliaceae Aralidium

*Coix lacryma-jobi is not native; it has naturalised in Singapore

Aralidium pinnatifidum (False Ivy Palm)

Galearia fulva Scaevola taccada (Sea Lettuce)

Syzygium glaucum Syzygium lineatum (Common Kelat)

Syzygium zeylanicum (Gelam Tikus)

© Plant Information Unit, National Parks Board 1 Examples of plants that exist only as cultivated specimens in Singapore: Taxon that exist only as cultivated specimens in Singapore *Listing is non-exhaustive Family Genus Boraginaceae Cordia sebestena Cucurbitaceae Momordica charantia (some cultivars) Solanaceae Cestrum nocturnum, Solanum melongena (some cultivars)

Cordia sebestena (Geiger Tree)

Solanum melongena ‘Thai Round White’ (‘Thai Round White’ Egg Plant)