Artocarpus elasticus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus elasticus Reinw. ex Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind.: 481 (1825).

Artocarpus blumei Trécul (1847), Artocarpus kunstleri King (1888).

• Indonesia: benda (Javanese, Java), teureup (Sundanese, Java), mengko (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: terap nasi (Peninsular), terap (Sarawak)
• Thailand: oh, ka-oh, tuka (peninsular).

Peninsular Burma (Myanmar), peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Palawan and the Lesser Sunda Islands.

The timber is used as terap for light construction. The seeds are eaten roasted or fried. The latex is used for birdlime and aboriginal tribes prepare cloth and rope from the bark. The fruit is edible but often has a bad taste and smell.

A medium-sized evergreen tree rarely reaching 45(-65) m tall, bole branchless for up to 30 m, up to 125(-210) cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high; leaves ovate-elliptical, base rounded or cuneate, very shortly appressed hispid above, subappressed hispid below, with 12-14 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul; male head cylindrical, 15-25 mm across, on a 40-75 mm long peduncle; styles in female head bifid; syncarp cylindrical, up to 5.5 cm across, with fleshy, shortly hispid processes of 2 lengths, the longer flexuous and solid, the shorter conical and perforate. A. elasticus occurs in evergreen and semi-deciduous forest, both primary and secondary, up to 300(-1500) m altitude. The wood is reported to be non-durable and has a density of 365-545 kg/m³at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

68, 69, 77, 78, 104, 234, 235, 261, 262, 294, 331, 458, 465, 474, 507, 526,574, 577, 631, 684, 705.