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2: Edible fruits and nuts

Antidesma ghaesembilla Gaertner

EUPHORBIACEAE

Black currant tree (En). Indonesia: ande-ande (Javanese), onyam (Sundanese), lonang (Kalimantan). Malaysia: gunciak, sekincak, kesambi. Philippines: binayuyo (Tagalog), arosep (Ilokano), tubo-tubo (Bikol). Burma: pyee-sin. Cambodia: dângkiep k'daam. Laos: hmauz nooyz. Thailand: mao-khaipla (Chon Buri), mangmao (Chanthaburi), maothung (Chumphon). Vietnam: chòi mòi, chop moi, com nguôi.

Tropical Africa, India, southern China, South-East Asia and Australia.

The fruits are eaten raw and prepared into jams, etc. Young shoots are used as a vegetable and as a spice; the leaves are used in traditional medicine against fever. The wood is red, hard and used for small constructions.

Monoecious tree, 3—12 m tall, deciduous. Leaves ovate to circular, 4—7.5 cm long, glossy above. Flowers in terminal panicles. Fruit a subglobose drupe, 4—5 mm diameter, velvety, dark red-purple. Seeds 1—2. In open grasslands at low and medium altitudes.

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[54]Merrill, E.D., 1923–1925. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. 4 Volumes. Government of the Philippine Islands, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Printing, Manila.
[56]Morton, J.F., 1987. Fruits of warm climates. Creative Resource Systems Inc., Winterville, N.C., USA. 503 pp.

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen

Jansen, P.C.M., Jukema, J., Oyen, L.P.A. & van Lingen, T.G., 1991. Antidesma ghaesembilla Gaertner. In: Verheij, E.W.M. and Coronel, R.E. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 2: Edible fruits and nuts. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea