Muntingia calabura
[Buah Cheri, Malayan Cherry, West Indian Cherry, Cherry Tree]
The magnified views of a twig and the under surface of a leaf showing dense hairs with swollen tips. Each swollen tip is a gland and the structure is known as stipitate gland since there is a stipe holding the gland or glandular trichomes [1]. Due to the extensive coverage of the glandular trichomes, the surfaces felt sticky when touch.
Early stage seedlings does not have toothed leaf blade. In the picture with 3 seedlings in the same pot, one of them belonged to Peperomia pellucida.
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