Durio zibethinus L.
| Family: | BOMBACACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Durian | ||||
| Synonym: | Durio acuminatissimus Merr. | ||||
| Common Name: | Civet fruit tree | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | February-June | ||||
| Distribution: | Cultivated in India, Native of Malay Peninsula | ||||
| Habitat: | Occasionally grown for the edible fruits | ||||
| Uses: | Fruit edible - raw or cooked. The ripening fruit produces a strongly unpleasant aroma, but the flesh has a delicious flavor. Seed - cooked. Boiled or roasted and eaten as nuts. The fruit is used as an aphrodisiac. The wood and dried fruit rind are used as a fuel. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Tree to 20-36 m tall, the trunk straight, the bark grey, smooth. Leaves narrowly elliptic, rounded at the base, the margins somewhat undulated. Flowers with the pedicels thick; epicalyx short-tubular; calyx oblong-tubular, scarcely swollen and rounded at the base; staminal tube white at the base and at the apex, reddish in the middle, longer than the calyx; ovary densely white-lepidote, the cells 2-ovulate; style long-exserted, the stigma orange. Capsule globular, completely dehiscent on the tree, the spines conical; seeds 1-5, chestnut-like, the testa brown and shining. | ||||