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Nephelium
''Nephelium'' is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeastern Asia. They are evergreen trees with pinnately compound leaf, leaves, and edible drupe, drupaceous fruit; one species, ''N. lappaceum'' (rambutan) is commercially important for its fruit. The genus is closely related to ''Lychee, Litchi'' and ''Dimocarpus''. ;Selected species References External linksSorting ''Nephelium'' namese-Floras search results for ''Nephelium''
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Nephelium Daedaleum
''Nephelium'' is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeastern Asia. They are evergreen trees with pinnately compound leaves, and edible drupaceous fruit; one species, ''N. lappaceum'' (rambutan) is commercially important for its fruit. The genus is closely related to '' Litchi'' and ''Dimocarpus ''Dimocarpus'' is a genus of trees or shrubs in the flowering plant family Sapindaceae. It includes 7 species which grow naturally in tropical south and Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australasia, including Sri Lanka, India, the Philippin ...''. ;Selected species References External linksSorting ''Nephelium'' namese-Floras search results for ''Nephelium''
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Rambutan
Rambutan ( ; ; ''Nephelium lappaceum'') is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to Southeast Asia. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits, including the lychee, longan, pulasan, and quenepa. Description It is an evergreen tree growing to a height of . The leaves are alternate, long, pinnate, with three to eleven leaflets, each leaflet wide and broad with an entire margin. The flowers are small, , apetalous, discoidal, and borne in erect terminal panicles wide. Rambutan trees can be male (producing only staminate flowers and, hence, produce no fruit), female (producing flowers that are only functionally female), or hermaphroditic (producing flowers that are female with a small percentage of male flowers). Fruit The fruit is a round to oval single-seeded drupe, long, rarely to long and broad, borne in a loose pendant cluster of ten t ...
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Nephelium Hypoleucum
''Nephelium hypoleucum'', the korlan,is a evergreen tree in the family Sapindaceae. It is in the same genus as the rambutan and also closely related to several other tropical fruits including the lychee, longan, and guinep. The plant is native to Southeast Asia and lives wild in the jungles of the region, although it is also cultivated in some countries such as Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Tree description ''Nephelium hypoleucum'' is an angiosperm tree. It can reach up to 30 meters tall, with the trunk growing to 1.4 meters in diameter. The leaflets are in pairs of 3 to 4. The margin of the leaflets are uneven and wavy. The leaves are alternate and have a spiral or whorled arrangement. The upper side of the leaf is usually smooth and the bottom is typically covered by a silky-like hair. The leaf can also have a domatium present for small insects or fungi. The flowers grow on an inflorescence and occur at the terminal position of the leaf axil in the ...
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Rambutan
Rambutan ( ; ; ''Nephelium lappaceum'') is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to Southeast Asia. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits, including the lychee, longan, pulasan, and quenepa. Description It is an evergreen tree growing to a height of . The leaves are alternate, long, pinnate, with three to eleven leaflets, each leaflet wide and broad with an entire margin. The flowers are small, , apetalous, discoidal, and borne in erect terminal panicles wide. Rambutan trees can be male (producing only staminate flowers and, hence, produce no fruit), female (producing flowers that are only functionally female), or hermaphroditic (producing flowers that are female with a small percentage of male flowers). Fruit The fruit is a round to oval single-seeded drupe, long, rarely to long and broad, borne in a loose pendant cluster of ten t ...
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