Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Acrocarpus fraxinifolius - Shingle Tree

Edible portion: Flowers, Vegetable

A tree. It grows 30-60 m tall. The branches occur high up. The leaves are twice divided. They are bright red when young and hairy underneath. The leaves are 100 cm long. They have 3-5 pairs of pinnae and these have 4-9 pairs of leaflets each. These are 4-14 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. They taper to the tip. The flowers are in 1-3 clusters and these are 20-25 cm long. The flowers have 5 red petals. The fruit is a long flattened pod. It is 8-15 cm long by 1-2 cm wide and flat. It has narrow wings. The seeds are oval and brown. There are 12-18 seeds.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in lower mountain regions in humid and sub-humid regions that have a short dry season.