Macaranga gigantea Common name Chia Kubet, (synonym Macaranga megalophylla) is a pioneer tree species in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae from western Indo-China and Malesia from southern Myanmar south to Sumatra and east to Sulawesi. It is a small tree growing to 15 metres tall, rarely to 25 metres. The leaves are peltate, tricuspidate and are typically up to 60 centimetres (24 in) long and wide on a petiole of comparable length.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Giant Mahang being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Macaranga bancana
- Ochroma pyramidale
- Cecropia marginalis
- Jatropha peltata
- Pterospermum acerifolium
- Macaranga mappa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Genus
- Macaranga
- Species
- Macaranga gigantea
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