Engelhardtia serrata

Blume

JuglandaceaeLeavesBark/SapSpice/Beverage

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves, Bark - spice

The young leaves are fried and eaten. The bark is used as a spice.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests.

Asia, Indochina, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, SE Asia, Thailand,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A large tree. It grows 20 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The bark is grey and deeply cracked. The leaves are compound with leaflets opposite. There are teeth along the edge near the tip. The flowers are separately male and female on the same tree. The fruit is a winged nut. It is 3.5 cm long. There is one seed.

How to Grow

Plants can be grown by seeds.

Notes

Also put in the family Myrsinaceae.

Names & Synonyms

Engelhardtia nudiflora Hook.f. and others

References (3)

Anderson, E. F., 1993, Plants and people of the Golden Triangle. Dioscorides Press. p 210
Schmidt-Vogt, D., 2001, Secondary Forests in Swidden Agriculture in the Highland of Thailand. Journal of tropical Forest Science 13(4): 748-767
Sukarya, D. G., (Ed.) 2013, 3,500 Plant Species of the Botanic Gardens of Indonesia. LIPI p 260

What to Eat

Where to Find It

How to Identify

How to Grow

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