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| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Scientific name | Heliotropium foertherianum Diane & Hilger |
| Synonyms | Argusia argentea (L. f.) Heine; Heliotropium foertheri Diane & Hilger; Messerschmidia argentea (L. f.) I. M. Johnston; Tournefortia arborea Blanco; Tournefortia argentea L. f. |
| Common name | (Japanese common name) monpa-no-ki [monpa tree (monpa = a traditional cotton cloth which had been used for white socks)], hama-murasaki-no-ki [beach purple tree] |
| (English common name) tree heliotrope | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Ogasawara Islands, Kyushu (south of Yakushima Island), Okinawa |
| (Other nations) China, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar | |
| Chromosomal number | unknown |
| Description | Plants 3-10m tall. Leaves 10-20cm long. Flowers white ca. 4mm, flowering in all seasons (mainly in June to September). Fruits ca. 4-6mm. Evergreen. Subarbor trees or shrub. |
| Reference | Tournefortia argentea L. f. |
| Tournefortia argentea Linnaeus f. | |
| Modulating alkaloid biosynthesis (US Patent 20070199090) | |
| Secondary metabolite production via manipulation of genome methylation (WIPO Patent WO/2006/113481) |
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