Canarium album (PROSEA)
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Canarium album (Lour.) Raeuschel
- Family: Burseraceae
Vernacular names
- Chinese olive (En)
- Thailand: samo cheen (Bangkok)
- Vietnam: trám tráng.
Distribution
Vietnam, southern China including Hainan; much cultivated in these areas. It is occasionally cultivated elsewhere in South-East Asia, e.g. on Sumatra near Medan.
Uses
The pulp and seeds from the fruits are edible and are prepared in several ways. Especially esteemed by the Chinese. Sometimes the wood and the resin are used. The tree is also planted as ornamental.
Observations
Tree, up to 30 m tall and 1.5 m in diameter. Leaves 3-6-jugate. Infructescences up to 15 cm long with up to 6 fruits; fruit an ovoid to spindle-shaped drupe, 2.5-3.5 cm × 1.5-2 cm, white; pericarp rather thick. Seeds 1 or 2. In light to dense forests on dry to moist soils, at 400-1200 m altitude.
Selected sources
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