Bouea macrophylla

• Thai:
• ma-praang (Pattani), somprang (Peninsula) (PROSEA)
• ma-yong (Subhadrabandhu); mar phang

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  1, flowering branch; 2, branch with fruits (PROSEA)

The fruit is harvested in February-May in Thailand, and March-June in Indonesia.

Bouea macrophylla Griffith (1854)

synonym:

• Bouea gandaria Blume ex Miq. (1859)

The species was traditionally multiplicated by seed. Improved cultivars are now multiplicated vegetatively by layering or grafting. Three groups are distinguished in Thailand:

• Prew Group, with very acid fruits, corresponding to the wild type. In Borneo, the cultivar 'Hintalu' is grown.
• Mayong Group, with slightly acid fruits, is grown and popular in Thailand. The best known cultivar is 'Chid'.
• Wan Group, with sweet fruits, is the most grown, and is exported. The best known cultivar is 'Ta It', bred more than a century ago. In Borneo, 'Ramania Pipit' and 'Ramania Tembai' are grown.

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Malaysian stamp from Pierre Guertin

Exported by Thailand to Europe

immature fruits

• fruit, mature: edible whole (with the peel), sweet with a light mango taste. The combination of bright orange flesh and mauve seed makes it very attractive.
• fruit, immature: edible in fruit salad or condiments
• seed: cotyledons edible, but endosperm bitter
• leaves, young: locally eaten raw or cooked
• tree planted a shade tree

• PROSEA 2, 1991. Plant resources of South-East Asia. vol. 2. Edible fruits and nuts. ed. by E.W.M. Verheij & R.E. Coronel. Wageningen, PUDOC/PROSEA. (Bogor, PROSEA, 1992). 447 p.
• Subhadrabandhu Suranant, 2001. Under-Utilized Tropical Fruits of Thailand. Bangkok, FAO. ma-praang

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