Lasianthus

Thanks Hawkkit and that's great suri. China sure is an amazing and beautiful place. Not to mention huge, there is still so much I would like to see there.

hello, I realized my homeland is so beautiful and amazing after seeing your pictures.

It's so blue! Amazing!

Thanks a lot Ursula!

Love this plant! It looks like a work of art :)

Thanks a lot Noah Citizen! I do like to find the odd and unusual. Btw, love your user name! Where in Canada are you?

Dan, you always bring curiosities and potential SOTD to the community! Once again, wonderful spotting: photos, colors, (not anymore) mysterious plant... Well done.

Your welcome smutnee

Thank you, those berries are a beautiful shade of blue

Thanks Mayra!

Beautiul colour!!

You're welcome, Dan! No problem, I'm also on progress to create small project on Indonesian native plants and invasive monitoring. This plants listed on it ... very unique member of Rubiaceae!

Thanks achmmad for the ID. It's great to solve this mystery thanks for all your searching.

Yeah, we have found it! Lasianthus stercorarius. I use Indonesian book: "Flora Pegunungan Jawa" this is Indonesian's edition of Mountain Flora of Java. Its interesting book. I don't know but you may be can found the original version one at Leiden, Netherlands. Here the description from the book: "height reach 4 m. Leaf length about 5-17 cm, width 2-4 cm (can be see at the pics from the narrow leaf form)" ... and one character not present in the photos is brown trichomes on upper branch group. Congratulation! very beautiful spotting Mr. Dan!

Finally, we have found genus name! Lasianthus sp. (still no exact species), they can be L. laevigatus or L. purpureus or L. stercorarius. The three sp mentioned has been documented at the same location (Moun Halimun Salak National Park). Need to check for the exact sp name. I think I also have the photos of the species :) Here is the link in Bahasa, http://km.ristek.go.id/assets/files/LIPI... and this is the similar photos to the spotting: http://131.230.176.4/imgs/pso/r/Rubiacea...

Thanks Achmmad, any idea on the genus or species?

I think I remember that this one named "kopi-kopian" (kopi (ID): coffee) kopi-kopian means like or similar to coffee but different. Kopi-kopian is just like yellow become to yellowish, something like that. That name come from Sundanese people in West Java, around Mount Halimun National Park.

That's okay Achmmad. @kdewey, thanks for the suggestion but this was not a vine and more of a small shrub.

It is the best reference I have here, I'm sorry. This species also has not been well documented in my area. I'd like to check it again.

Thanks a lot everyone for the nice comments. @ Jonathan,as for the ID, yes I do think it is Rubiaceae. @wendy, it could be a species of Uncaria but I didn't see anything very similar in the link and have not found a match online. Any other references we could check?

awesome color... :) nice shot.

I found plants similar with your picture and I remember it belong to Rubiaceae and it belong to Uncaria genus see here: http://biodiversity.sci.kagoshima-u.ac.j... ... (better use this as reference).

gorgeous colors!!

That is beautiful turquoise.

Dan I see caracteristics of a Rubiaceae...