Jeniang, Kedah, MalaysiaSCALY BARK AND PEELING (KULIT BERSISIK DAN LEKANG) NO BUTTRESS.Mangifera quadrifida Jack ex Wall. Anacardiaceae. CN:[Malay - Buah Asam Kumbang; Borneo vernacular names - Asam putarum, Asem kumbang, Asem paoh, Asem rawa, Baab, Damaran, Rancha rancha, Rawa-rawa biasa, Rawa-rawa pipit]. Indigenous to Malesia region lowland forests up to ca 900m. Plant can grow to a gigantic more than 50 meters height and now quiet a rarity. Fruit flesh is yellow, with a sour but tasty flavor that is often used locally for pickles, eaten raw with chillies and prawn paste and soy-sauce. Rind purplish-mottled, resinous but easily removed using bare hands.Synonym(s):Mangifera langong Miq.Mangifera longipetiolata KingMangifera maingayi Hook.f.Mangifera quadrifida var. spathulaefolia (Bl.) Engl.Mangifera rigida Bl.Mangifera spathulaefolia Bl.Ref. and suggested reading:FRIM Flora Databasewww.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2362643www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23357www.asianplant.net/Anacardiaceae/Mangifera_quadrifida.htm
Family: AnacardiaceaeDistribution: Native of India. Cultivated through out tropics for fruit. Mango tree are large spreading. Flowers small 4-6mm across, produced in large terminal panicles.Flower polygamous, pedicel jointed. bract deciduous; sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous, petals 5, free or adnate to the disk. petals are ornamented inside with lobed yellow or brown colored glandular scales. Disk fleshy,5 lobed; stamens 5, only one fertile, remaining sterile; ovary sessile 1 celled, style lateral, stigma simple. Photographed at Nellore of India.
