Rubiaceae member?- Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia

Fraser’s Hill – 18/07/2014. I was intrigued by this fruit & would love to know the ID 🙂 Noticed the beautiful details only when zooming in on the camera monitor! The central portion is inky black & glutinous in quality.

Seems this has stumped us all

did you buy any books about flora and fauna of the places you visit…
I find that helps often
anyway I am still hopeful that someone will know…
… is unusually quiet these days, I was hoping at least he would have some ideas

Thanks for your reply, … 🙂 I do hope it gets id’d 🙂 It’s so fascinating!!

About buying a book on local flora & fauna, I’ll definitely keep in mind. Yes, it would be so useful. About this particular fruit particularly – because I found the centre moving up & down – ‘pulsating’ would be a bit much but that term comes closest to what I saw. It must have been a fresh fall. Intriguing, isn’t it? You can now understand why I am so eager to know it’s identity.

See the 3rd pic for the magnified details.Quite thrilling !! :))

intriguing? may be

lets hope some one tells us…

To me it looks like an infected, dried inflorescence of a Rubiaceae member (Ixora type?; note the typical stipules and leaf-scars).

The fine whitish structures could be of dehisced anthers. The petals / corolla lobes might have been dried and shrunk.
This is just an assumption and I may very well be wrong.

a most plausible explanation.

Thank you, … for this feedback. I’m trying to get back to the place we stayed in to forward this to our guide so he could help out. Keeping fingers crossed !

Seems it’s some of Arecaceae or Pandanaceae inflorescence,