Elaeocarpus braceanus seed

LATIN NAME: Elaeocarpus braceanus

COMMON NAME: Brace Elaeocarpus

The Brace elaeocarpus is a handsome, upright, evergreen tree of the warm forests, and its fine, oval or lance-shaped, toothed, glossy leaves and its small, white or greenish, fringed, bell-shaped flowers, followed by the small, oval, blue or dark-purple, fleshy fruits, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, evergreen tree, reaching up to twenty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the alternate, oval or lance-shaped, pointed, finely toothed, glossy leaves and, through the warm months, the small, white or greenish, fringed, bell-shaped flowers in the small clusters, followed by the small, oval, blue or dark-purple, fleshy, single-seeded fruits. It is a species of the flowering tree in the elaeocarpus family, and it is native to the warm forests of the south-eastern Asia, while it is prized for its fine, graceful form, and it is known as the Brace elaeocarpus.

In the elaeocarpus family it is the fringed-flowered tree of the warm forests, a graceful evergreen whose blue fruits are a small treasure of the bird garden.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Brace elaeocarpus appears in the forest-ecology papers of the south-eastern Asia as a fine subject of the warm forest study, and the botanists have mapped its place in the elaeocarpus family and the regional flora. The wildlife ecologists have watched the birds come to the small, oval, blue or dark-purple fruits, and the horticulturists have grown the fringed, bell-shaped flowers and the graceful evergreen form for the warm garden. It is a tree that carries the forest look into the garden, and the growers of the warm-region trees keep it in their catalogues for the avenue and the shade.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm garden, the Brace elaeocarpus is the graceful tree of the bird walk. Its fringed, bell-shaped flowers feed the bees, its blue fruits feed the birds, and the glossy, evergreen crown gives the garden shade and shelter through the year. It is treasured for the fringed flowers and the graceful form, and it grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground of the sheltered spot. Fringed-flowered, blue-fruited and graceful.

The seeds are best sown fresh — press them into pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil at a shallow depth, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and never let them dry out, and the first shoots will be along in good time.