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2: Edible fruits and nuts

Burckella obovata (Forster f.) Pierre

SAPOTACEAE

Burckella cocco (Scheffer) Pierre, B. cocco var. bawun H.J. Lam.

Indonesia: sawo seberang (Java), koko (Irian Jaya). Papua New Guinea: evatnari, natu (New Ireland).

Wild and cultivated in the Moluccas, New Guinea, New Hebrides, Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. Occasionally cultivated in Java.

The fruit is said to be delicious. The wood is used in house building.

Tree, 15—25 m tall, all parts with milky sap. Leaves simple, crowded at the top of the twigs. Flowers 40—60 together, white. Fruit a globose to obovoid berry, 7—10 cm x 5—8 cm, 4—5-furrowed, light green, flesh white. Seed solitary, 4—6.5 cm long. In coastal rain forest, often in home gardens.

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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. Burckella obovata (Forster f.) Pierre. 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