About Pachygone ovata
Pachygone ovata, the fish berry, is a climbing plant from northern Australia. The fruit has been used in folk medicine and for fish poison.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Pachygone ovata
- Genus
- Pachygone
- Family
- MENISPERMACEAE
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests and foothills of scrub jungles
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, North-East Australia
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-October
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Tamil
- கட்டுக்கொடி
Botanical family
Menispermaceae
Moonseed Family
Pachygone ovata belongs to the Menispermaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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