Madhuca curtisii

What to Eat

Edible parts: Sap, Fruit ?

Sap and possibly fruit are eaten.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical palnt.

Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, SE Asia,

How to Identify

A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk can be 60 cm across. The leaves ate 7.5-15.5 cm long by 3.5-7 cm wide. The fruit is oval and 2 cm long by 1.3 cm wide. They are reddish-brown and slightly hairy.

Other Uses

Wood. We do not have any more specific information on the wood of this species, but it belongs to a group of timbers collectively called 'Bitis' or 'Nyatoh'. The general description of bitis wood is as follows:- The heartwood is red-brown to purple- or chocolate-red-brown; it is sharply demarcated from the yellow-brown to purple-grey-brown sapwood. The texture is moderately fine and even, with straight or shallowly interlocked grain. The wood is strong, heavy and durable. It is very difficult to treat with preservatives. It is slightly difficult to difficult to resaw, easy to slightly difficult to crosscut. Planing is slightly difficult but the planed surface is smooth. Nailing property is rated as poor. The timber seasons slowly with moderate end-checking, splitting and surface-checking as the major sources of defects. Shrinkage is high. The timber is likely to be fairly difficult to dry. The wood is suitable for all forms of heavy construction, bridges, wharves, piers, piling, posts, railway sleepers, parquet flooring and heavy flooring. Bitis is essentially a Peninsular Malaysian name. In Sabah and Sarawak, the timber is not differentiated from the lighter species of Madhuca and Palaquium, and they are all sold together as nyatoh.

Madhuca curtisii is a tree in the family Sapotaceae.

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