Gandaria fruit.

Gandaria (Bouea macrophylla Griffith) or other local names Jatake is a plant that originated from the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia. This plant grows in the tropics, and widely cultivated in Sumatra and Thailand.
Gandaria utilized fruit, leaves, and stems. Gandaria fruit is green when young, and is often consumed as a salad or a sauce mixture Gandaria. Gandaria ripe fruit is yellow, has a sour-sweet flavor and can be eaten directly. The leaves are used as a salad. Gandaria rods can be used as a board. Gandaria is the floral identity of West Java.

Description. 

Gandaria mango fruit resembles a small round. The tree was, however high. Height can reach 25 m. Editorial meeting, flared limbs elongated, with a blunt tip. Perbungaannya panicle, the flowers resemble the flowers of mango yellow, and appear in the armpit leaves. Flowering in September-December. The fruit is round, like marbles. Such as the type of stone fruit, thick discharge and a distinctive odor like turpentine. While still young, green color, and when ripe, yellow-orange. The seeds are purple. The leaves are single, round egg-shaped oval to oblong or oblong shape. White when young, then gradually dark purple, then to dark green.

Distribution and habitat. 

This fruit originated in the regions of Southeast Asia, has now spread to the islands on the east and also to India. In Indonesia, Gandaria has a narrow distribution. Ie, on the island of Sumatra, part of Java, Maluku, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi and North Sulawesi, and Papua. Gandaria grows in the forests, or planted in the villages as a fruit crop. He grew up with both of altitude 5-800 m. The cultivation of this plant has been carried out in Sumatra.
Meanwhile, it grows well in either residential Ambon lowland or highland. In the lowland forest, can live below 300 meters above sea level, but the cultivation has been successfully grown at an altitude of about 850 m above sea level.

Utilization. 

Young leaves are used for vegetables, particularly for salad. The fruit is watery, sweet-sour taste. This plant can be eaten after plucked from the tree. Meanwhile, when she was young, the fruit can be made of chili, salad, eaten directly or for a salad. The wood can be used to make the sheath and leaves are used for medicine.
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