Flacourtia jangomas (PROSEA)
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Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeuschel
- Family: Flacourtiaceae
Vernacular names
- Indian plum (En)
- Indonesia: rukem (Java), situ (Ace)
- Malaysia: kerkup
- Cambodia: krâkhôp khmaèr
- Thailand: takhop-khwai (central), makwen-khwai (northern), khrop (Pattani)
- Vietnam: hông quân, muôn quân, bô quân.
Distribution
Only known cultivated in tropical Africa and Asia, especially in home gardens around villages.
Uses
Fruits are eaten raw but are rather astringent. They serve better to make marmalades. Leaves and roots contain tannin and are used against diarrhoea. The wood is hard and used for small utensils.
Observations
Small deciduous tree, up to 14 m tall, spiny when young. Leaves ovate-oblong, 5-11 cm × 2-5 cm. Flowers unisexual. Fruit a subglobose berry, about 2 cm diameter, red to black, with 4-10 seeds. In lowland areas up to 600 m altitude.
Selected sources
56, 93.
