Diospyros lolin
Bakh.
Lolin, Lorin
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Description
A tree. It grows 15-25 m tall. The leaves are sword shaped. They are 10-25 cm long by 6-10 cm wide. Plants are separately male and female. Flowers have 4 to 5 flower parts. The fruit is a flattened round shape. They are 7-8 cm across. The fruit are yellow. The flesh is a slimy mealy texture. There are 4-10 seeds.
Edible Uses
Fruit - raw or cooked. A slimy-mealy flesh. The ripe fruits have a flavour that reminds one of hard-fleshed bananas. The yellow fruit is a depressed globose berry, the size of an orange, containing 4 - 10 seeds.
Traditional Uses
The ripe fruit are eaten. They can be eaten raw or roasted.
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Distribution
A tropical plant.
Where It Grows
Asia, Indonesia*, Papua New Guinea, PNG, SE Asia,
Cultivation
A dioecious species, both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required.
Other Uses
The wood is arvested commercially. Beautiful, but hard and difficult to work.
Notes
There are about 485 species of Diospyros mostly in the tropics.
References (2)
- PROSEA handbook Volume 9 Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. p 187
- Verheij, E. W. M. and Coronel, R.E., (Eds.), 1991, Plant Resources of South-East Asia. PROSEA No 2. Edible fruits and nuts. Pudoc Wageningen. p 329
