Artocarpus dadah (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus dadah Miq.

Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl.: 420 (1861).

• Artocarpus rufescens Miq. (1861),
• Artocarpus tampang Miq. (1861),
• Artocarpus inconstantissimus (Miq.) Miq. (1867).

• Indonesia: dadah (general), tampang dadak, tampang telor (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: tampang, chempedak ayer (Peninsular), merubi (Sarawak).
• Burma (Myanmar): ta-mal
• Thailand: thangkhan (Yala), hat-rum, hat-lukyai (Trang).

Peninsular Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

A. dadah is a fairly important source of keledang timber; the wood is used especially for poles, bridges and flooring. The latex is reported to have purifying properties when applied to wounds. The fruit is edible but sour.

• A medium-sized to fairly large deciduous tree up to 35 m tall, bole up to 100 cm in diameter.
• Leaves obovate-oblong to ovate-elliptical, base rounded, entire, the veins puberulent above, densely to sparsely pubescent below, with 10-20 pairs of secondary veins, stipules not amplexicaul.
• Male head globose or pulvinate, 8-15 mm across; styles in female head simple.
• Syncarp subglobose, to c. 5 cm across, with an almost smooth surface, velutinous.

A. dadah occurs in evergreen and deciduous forest but also in open country, up to 1000 m altitude. The wood is reported to be durable, resistant to insect attack and to alternating wet and dry conditions. The density is 650-880 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

69, 77, 104, 234, 263, 474, 574, 705, 734.

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)