Chrysobalanus icaco (PROSEA)
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Vernacular names
- Coco plum, icaco (En). Chrysobalanier (Fr)
- Vietnam: mân du'à.
Distribution
Wild and cultivated in the Neotropics, in West and Central Africa, naturalized in Fiji and Singapore. In South-East Asia it is cultivated in Vietnam, occasionally also in other countries.
Uses
The fruit is eaten raw, boiled or candied. The tannin in the fruit is used to tan leather. In traditional medicine the fruit is applied against diarrhoea. Also planted as ornamental.
Observations
Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall. Fruit an ovoid or obovoid drupe, 2-5 cm long, longitudinally ridged; mesocarp thin and fleshy. On dunes, beaches and in coastal scrub, sometimes planted to stabilize dunes.
Selected sources
10, 51, 93.