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Lolly Berry Fruit Plants (Salacia Chinensis )

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Plant Type

Common Names: Lolly Berry, Chinese Salacia, Saptachakra.

Botanical Name: Salacia Chinensis.

General Information: Lolly Berry is usually a climbing plant, but it can also be a scrambling shrub and occasionally takes on a more tree-like form. It can grow tall.

Fruit: The fruit of Salacia Chinensis is globose to ovate and red in color, It typically contains a single seed, The fruit's skin separates much like that of a lychee, revealing a fleshy, opaque aril inside., The aril is very sweet, non-fibrous, and has a taste similar to watermelon cotton candy.

Uses and Benefits:

The pulp surrounding the seed of Salacia Chinensis is edible.

The roots of this species have medicinal uses, including normalizing menstruation and invigorating circulation.

Cultivation Details:

Blooming Time/Fruiting: 4-5 Years.

Maintenance Required: Moderate.

Planting and Care

It grows in forests along the seashore and sandy riverbanks, and in lowland primary forests up to 450 m altitude. Requires moist soils, well-drained soils, saline soils/salt spray, fertile loamy soils.

Special Feature

It is used to treat amenorrhoea and irregular menstruation cycle.

Uses/Benefits

The pulp surrounding the seed is eaten also roots of this species have medicinal uses, including normalizing menstruation and invigorating circulation.