Fish Berry
Anamirta cocculus
Also known as Crow Killer, Levant berries
About Fish Berry
Anamirta cocculus (Marathi: काकमारी) is a Southeast Asian and Indian climbing plant. It is the source of picrotoxin, a poisonous compound with stimulant properties. The plant is large-stemmed (up to 10 cm in diameter); the bark is "corky gray" with white wood. The "small, yellowish-white, sweet-scented" flowers vary between 6 and 10 millimeters across; the fruit produced is a drupe, "about 1 cm in diameter when dry".
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Anamirta cocculus
- Genus
- Anamirta
- Family
- MENISPERMACEAE
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous, Evergreen forests, also sacred groves in the plains
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Indo-China, Incl. Philippines and Newguinea
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- काकमारी Kakamari, काकमारी
- Tamil
- cantiropam, kakamari, kakanacam
- Kannada
- ಕಾಕಮಾರಿ Kaakamaari, ಕಾಕಿಸೊಪ್ಪುಗೆಡ್ಡೆ Kaakisoppugedde, ಕಾಗೆ ಮಾಂಬಳ್ಳಿ
- Malayalam
- anakrytu, anamrytu, garalaphala
- Marathi
- काकमारी kakmari, kaarvi, kadu-phal
Menispermaceae
Moonseed Family
Fish Berry belongs to the Menispermaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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