Sphaerocoryne affinis
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten and sold in markets.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. It grows in forest.
Asia, Cambodia, Indochina, Laos, Malaysia, SE Asia, Thailand, Vietnam,
How to Identify
A woody climber. It can be 30 m long. The flowers have a sweet smell. They are yellowish white. The fruit are oval and 1 cm long. They are yellow and fleshy. It is on 5 cm long stalk.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Sphaerocoryne affinis is a species of flowering plant in the soursop family, Annonaceae. It is a liana (woody climbing plant) growing in lowland wet tropical forests at an elevation of up to 200 metres (660 ft). It is distributed within west and central Malesia, and occurs at one locality in Southern Thailand, on Tarutao Island. Sphaerocoryne affinis is similar in appearance to S. lefevrei (a species with cultural significance in Cambodia and Thailand, where it is known as rumduol and lamduan, respectively), and some sources treat them as the same species. In Cambodia, the rumdoul has been referred to by the scientific name Mitrella mesnyi, which most authorities regard as an illegitimate synonym of S. affinis, though this species does not occur in the country.
Other Information
The fruit are sold in markets.
Names & Synonyms
Akar bunga tanjong, Rumduol
References (6)
- Burkill, I.H., 1966, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol 2 (I-Z) p 2099 (As Sphaerocoryne aberrans)
- Crevost & Lemarie, 1917, Cat. Prod. Indochine, p 194 (As Sphaerocoryne aberrans)
- Martin, M.A., 1971, Introduction L'Ethnobotanique du Cambodge. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Paris. (As Popowia aberrans)
- Milow, P., et al, 2013, Malaysian species of plants with edible fruits or seeds and their evaluation. International Journal of Fruit Science. 14:1, 1-2 (As Sphaerocoryne aberrans)
- PROSEA Vol. 2 (As Sphaerocoryne aberrans)
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
