Durio graveolens (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Durio graveolens Becc.

Family: Bombacaceae

• Indonesia (Sumatra): tinambela (Batak), durian rimba, durian burung (Malay).
• Indonesia, Malaysia (Borneo): taula, durio anggang (Dyak-kenya).

Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia.

The aril around the seed is edible but not very juicy, hardly fragrant and not very tasty.

• Tree, up to 45 m tall, buttresses up to 3 m high.
• Fruit a globose to ellipsoid capsule, about 10-15 cm in diameter, orange-yellow, with sharp pyramidal 1 cm long spines, dehiscent into 5 valves while still attached to the branch.
• Seeds ellipsoid, 4 cm × 2 cm, glossy brown, completely enclosed by a fleshy dark red aril.

In rain forests, up to 1300 m altitude. Becoming domesticated in Sabah. Flowering within 6 years after sowing.

• Kostermans, A.J.G.H., 1958. The genus Durio Adans. (Bombacaceae). Reinwardtia 4: 357-460.

• Tankard, G., 1987. Exotic tree fruit for the Australian home garden. Recent rare fruit discoveries in Malaysian Borneo. Thomas Nelson Australia, Melbourne, Victoria. pp. 117-125.

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen