Diospyros buxifolia
From PlantUse English
Popular Names
- Tamil: chinnathuvarai (Wealth of India)
- Kannada: kunchiganmara (Wealth of India)
- Malayalam: illaccivvicca, kattuthovara (Wealth of India)
- Indonesia: ki merak (Sundanese), rangkemi (Malay, Sumatra), meribu (Malay, Kalimantan) (PROSEA)
- Malaysia: meribut, dalai putih, mempunai (peninsular) (PROSEA)
- Thai: riphao, sangtham (PROSEA)
- Vietnamese: cây vây oc (PROSEA)
Main uses
Timber used as black ebony. Fruit edible but dry. Roadside tree.
Main references
- PROSEA 5(2), 1995. Plant resources of South-East Asia. vol. 5 (2). Timber trees : minor commercial timbers. ed. by R.H.M.J. Lemmens, I. Soerianegara & W.C. Wong. Leiden/Wageningen, Backhuys/PROSEA. (Bogor, PROSEA, 1995). p. 190.
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