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Umbrella tree

Hanuman prasan kai | หนุมานประสานกาย  | Schefflera leucantha

Family: Araliacaeae - Genus: Schefflera

The Umbrella tree can be found near the restaurant of Eco-Logic Thailand and in Paksong area.

 

The umbrella tree, also known as Schefflera and umbrella plant, is a plant that originates from Thailand. It is an evergreen shrub that can be up to 15 meters tall. The tree seldom blooms, but when it blooms it has small white flowers, in a fleshy spherical.

The bark of the tree is smooth, brown, the leaves are finger-shaped, alternating with 6-8 sub-leaves, oval, 1.5-3 centimeter wide and 5-8 centimeter long. It's green as a bouquet of flowers at the end of the branch.

The umbrella tree seldom blooms.


 

The papaya is a small, sparsely branched tree, usually with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 meter tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk. The lower trunk is usually scarred where leaves and fruit were borne. All parts of the plant contain latex.
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THE PLANT

The umbrella tree, also known as Schefflera and umbrella plant, is a plant that originates from Thailand. It is an evergreen shrub that can be up to 15 meters tall. The tree seldom blooms, but when it blooms it has small white flowers, in a fleshy spherical.

The bark of the tree is smooth, brown.



 

The leaves of the papaya are large, 50-70 cm in diameter, with seven lobes.
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THE LEAVES

The e umbrella umbrella tree features long, shiny, oval green leaves that droop gracefully from a central stalk, resembling an umbrella. A mature tree might have 12 to 16 leaflets from a single stalk, while an immature tree is more likely to have four to six.



 


The flowers are five-parted; the male flowers have the stamens fused to the petals. The female flowers have a superior ovary and five contorted petals loosely connected at the base. The flowers are sweet-scented, open at night, and wind- or insect-pollinated.
FLOWER

THE FLOWERS

The tree seldom blooms, but when it blooms it has small white flowers, in a fleshy spherical.








 

CULINARY USES

No culinary use of the umbrella plant is known. The plant is mainly a medicinal plant/




 

TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL USE


NOTE: please take advice from a doctor if you are planning to use herbal medicine.


The whole plant is also used as analgesics, antiseptic and to promote blood circulation. The leaves are used for wound-healing, inflammation, cough, bronchitis, carcinogenic and removal of blood clot in the brain. In Thailand and China the plant is widely used as an antiasthmatic.

 

INTO THE WILD: a down to earth experience

For guests and visitors to Paksong we organize weekly tours "The Edible Forest" and Foraging weekends: Into the Wild. We work with local guides to take you in the jungle of Paksong. After foraging, we will cook a meal with the ingredients, using bamboo together with you!


Come and join and learn about the abundance of food that nature gives us!


INTO THE WILD!

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