Description

Kasai Black matoa, Matoa fruit has a unique shape, oval-shaped with hard skin that is green, yellowish green and reddish green. Matoa trees can grow very large, reaching a height of up to 18 meters with a diameter of around 100cm. Matoa fruit is a seasonal fruit that only bears fruit once a year, especially around February to March. It tastes sweet, combining the deliciousness of longan with a distinctive aroma that makes it so special. Apart from that, the clear, slippery and transparent shape of the fruit is similar to longan, making Matoa a very tempting fruit for fruit lovers.

Matoa also has various names, such as Kasai (North Kalimantan, Malaysia, Indonesia), Malugai (Philippines), and Taun (Papua New Guinea). Usually, matoa trees develop and grow naturally on flat, clay-textured soil, so that when it rains the soil is slightly flooded. This plant belongs to the rambutan family (Sapindaceae).

Pometia pinnata (Matoa) is a tropical fruit, oval in shape, green, yellowish green or reddish yellow skin color.

The matoa tree is a type of large plant, because it can grow to around 18 meters and its trunk diameter is around 100 cm. This plant will bear fruit once a year, namely in February-March.

In the Papua region, matoa trees grow throughout the lowlands up to an altitude of 1200 meters above sea level, or around 100–1,700 meters above sea level. Matoa will grow optimally if it lives in an area with rainfall of 1200 mm per year.

Not only in Papua, Pometia pinnata grows in various regions in Indonesia, namely Sulawesi, Maluku, Java and countries close to Papua.

Matoa trees are spread throughout various regions of Indonesia because this plant easily adapts to various soil conditions.