- Source: Dimocarpus
Dimocarpus is a genus of trees or shrubs in the flowering plant family Sapindaceae. It includes 7 species which grow naturally in tropical south and Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australasia, including Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, southern China, Taiwan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, East Timor, far north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
The fruit is edible, with the longan (D. longan) being grown commercially for fruit production.
The species are large evergreen trees growing to 25–40 m tall, with pinnate leaves. The flowers are individually inconspicuous, produced in large panicles. The fruit is an oval drupe 3–5 cm long containing a single seed surrounded by a translucent crisp, juicy layer of fruit pulp and a thin but hard orange or red skin.
Species
References
Further reading
Bean, A. R. (March 2005). "The Taxonomic status of Dimocarpus leichhardtii (Benth.) S.T.Reynolds" (PDF). Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter. 122 (March). Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc.: 7. ISSN 1034-1218. Retrieved 15 Dec 2013.
"Dimocarpus Lour". Atlas of Living Australia.
Media related to Dimocarpus at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Lengkeng
- Siwalan
- Kalium klorat
- Daftar genus Sapindaceae
- Sapindoideae
- Dimocarpus
- Longan
- Alupag
- Nephelium
- Dentatus
- Dimocarpus confinis
- Dimocarpus gardneri
- Dimocarpus fumatus
- Dimocarpus yunnanensis
- Dimocarpus australianus
