Product Description
Bischofia javanica Toog tree bishop wood, Java cedar Seeds
Bischofia javanica is a medium to fairly large, usually deciduous tree, 30-50 m tall, bole straight or poorly shaped, branchless part usually short but sometimes up to 20 m long, up to 80(-170) cm in diameter, sometimes with steep buttresses up to 3 m high; bark fissured and scaly with small, thick shaggy scales, reddish-brown to purplish-brown, inner bark fibrous, spongy, pink, exuding a red sap; crown dense and rounded. Leaves arranged spirally, pinnately 3-foliate, glabrous; petiole 8-20 cm long; stipules oblong-triangular, papery, 7-22 mm long, early caducous, leaflets elliptical to ovate, 6-16 cm x 3-10 cm, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, margin finely crenate-serrate, pinately veined, shiny above, terminal leaflet long-stalked. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous, small, greenish, apetalous; disc absent. Male flowers in an axillary, many-flowered, 9-20 cm long panicle; sepals united at base, hooded; stamens 5, free, opposite to the calyx lobes; pistillode broadly peltate and short-stalked. Female flowers in a lax, 15-27 cm long panicle; calyx lobes 5, caducous; staminodes very small; ovary superior, globose, 3(-4) celled, with 2 apical pendulous ovules per cell, style short, with 3 long and spreading to recurved stigmas. Fruit a globose drupe, indehiscent, 1.2-1.5 cm across, bluish-black, with a horny to leathery pericarp and fleshy mesocarp; cells 1-2 seeded