<big>''[[Manilkara kauki]]'' (L.) Dubard</big>
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:Protologue: Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, sér. 3, 3: 9 (1915).
== Synonyms ==
*''Mimusops'' ''kauki'' L. (1753).
== Vernacular names ==
== Uses ==
The timber is used for construction and particularly for furniture and carving; it is also used for turnery and mills. The fruits are edible. This species is used as rootstock for sapodilla ( ''Manilkara zapota'' ). Flowers and seeds are used medicinally. The trees are planted as fruit trees and ornamentals, often near palaces and temples.
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized tree, up to 25 m tall, often with gnarled and low-branched bole, sometimes columnar, up to 100 cm in diameter; leaves .*Leaves clustered at apex of twigs, silky white velvety beneath; flower .*Flower buds ovoid, pedicels not incrassate, curved and long, calyx up to 7 mm long, ovary with distinct glabrous disk; fruit .*Fruit ovoid or obovoid, up to 3.7 cm long. ''M.'' ''kauki'' usually grows in coastal regions with a comparatively dry climate, generally below 500 m altitude.
== Selected sources ==
102, 165, 166, 167, 201, 304, 318, 346, 356, 618, 640, 673, 682, 686, 731, 760, 779, 783.
== Main genus page ==
*[[Manilkara (PROSEA)|''Manilkara'']]
== Authors ==
I.G.M. Tantra (general part), N. Tonanon (properties), *R.H.M.J. Lemmens (properties, selection of species) & R. Klaassen (wood anatomy),
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