Baccaurea polyneura is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is native to Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra island of Indonesia. The fruit, called jentik, is edible, if sour, and is locally harvested and sold. When unripe, the fruit takes on an evergreen color with its dioecious tree growing up to 11-32 meters in…

Have you ever tasted musk fruit? If so, you could be one of the lucky ones, considering that this endemic fruit from the island of Borneo is very hard to find. Kasturi fruit is also known as Kasturi mango (Mangifera casturi) or Kalimantan mango. Kasturi mango is an endemic plant typical of South Kalimantan whose…

Musa velutina is a species of banana native to northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and southwestern China. It is commonly known as the pink banana or the hairy banana, due to its pink inflorescence and the velvety hairs on its pseudostems. The fruit of Musa velutina is small, about 3-4 inches long, and has a bright…

Of the many genera of mangoes, kuweni fruit is very easy to recognize. The smell is pungent. Kuweni fruit flesh is dense, soft, and the fiber is fine, although the fruit skin is rather thick. This species is known by a variety of similar names in many areas. In Java, kuweni is also known as…

Salak pondoh has a characteristic taste that is sweet or not astringent since the fruit is still young. Salak pondoh (Salacca zalacca Gaertner Voss) belongs to the palmae family, has many thorns and shoots, grows into dense clumps Classification The position of Salak Pondoh at the taxon level is as follows: Kingdom : Plantae Division:…