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<big>''[[Feroniella lucida]]'' (Scheffer) Swingle</big>
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:Family: Rutaceae
== Synonyms ==
''Feronia lucida'' Scheffer.
== Vernacular names ==
*Indonesia: kawista-krikil (Java)
*Cambodia: ka sang, cra san
*Laos: sang
*Thailand: ma sang
*Vietnam: da da, canthan.
== Distribution ==
Thailand, Indo-China, Java. Occasionally cultivated.
== Uses ==
Raw fruit pulp is used as a vegetable. The wood is hard, but rarely used.
== Observations ==
Tree, up to 25 m tall with horizontally arranged branches, spiny or unarmed. Leaves composite, about 8 cm long with 3-11 leaflets. Flowers white, 2-3 cm in diameter, odoriferous, male or bisexual. Fruit a hard-shelled, globose berry, 6-7 cm in diameter, with white or yellowish pulp. In habit and ecology, ''F. lucida'' resembles the wood apple ( ''Limonia acidissima'' L.), preferring a monsoon or seasonally dry tropical climate. In Central Java often found in teak forest on seasonally very dry soil, up to 400 m altitude. The form with yellowish fruit pulp is said to be toxic (might be ''F. pubescens'' Tanaka); the fruits with white pulp are sold on markets in Indo-China.
== Selected sources ==
7, 20, 44, 54.
[[Category:Vegetables (PROSEA)]]
[[Category:PROSEA]]
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Feroniella lucida'' (PROSEA)}}
<big>''[[Feroniella lucida]]'' (Scheffer) Swingle</big>
__NOTOC__
:Family: Rutaceae
== Synonyms ==
''Feronia lucida'' Scheffer.
== Vernacular names ==
*Indonesia: kawista-krikil (Java)
*Cambodia: ka sang, cra san
*Laos: sang
*Thailand: ma sang
*Vietnam: da da, canthan.
== Distribution ==
Thailand, Indo-China, Java. Occasionally cultivated.
== Uses ==
Raw fruit pulp is used as a vegetable. The wood is hard, but rarely used.
== Observations ==
Tree, up to 25 m tall with horizontally arranged branches, spiny or unarmed. Leaves composite, about 8 cm long with 3-11 leaflets. Flowers white, 2-3 cm in diameter, odoriferous, male or bisexual. Fruit a hard-shelled, globose berry, 6-7 cm in diameter, with white or yellowish pulp. In habit and ecology, ''F. lucida'' resembles the wood apple ( ''Limonia acidissima'' L.), preferring a monsoon or seasonally dry tropical climate. In Central Java often found in teak forest on seasonally very dry soil, up to 400 m altitude. The form with yellowish fruit pulp is said to be toxic (might be ''F. pubescens'' Tanaka); the fruits with white pulp are sold on markets in Indo-China.
== Selected sources ==
7, 20, 44, 54.
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