Feroniella lucida (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Feroniella lucida (Scheffer) Swingle

Family: Rutaceae

• Feronia lucida Scheffer.

• Indonesia: kawista-krikil (Java)
• Cambodia: ka sang, cra san
• Laos: sang
• Thailand: ma sang
• Vietnam: da da, canthan.

Thailand, Indo-China, Java. Occasionally cultivated.

Raw fruit pulp is used as a vegetable. The wood is hard, but rarely used.

• Tree, up to 25 m tall with horizontally arranged branches, spiny or unarmed.
• Leaves composite, about 8 cm long with 3-11 leaflets.
• Flowers white, 2-3 cm in diameter, odoriferous, male or bisexual.
• Fruit a hard-shelled, globose berry, 6-7 cm in diameter, with white or yellowish pulp.

In habit and ecology, F. lucida resembles the wood apple (Limonia acidissima L.), preferring a monsoon or seasonally dry tropical climate. In Central Java often found in teak forest on seasonally very dry soil, up to 400 m altitude. The form with yellowish fruit pulp is said to be toxic (might be F. pubescens Tanaka); the fruits with white pulp are sold on markets in Indo-China.

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