Nyatoh jongkang tree
Palaquium hexandrum

Family: Sapotaceae

What it is like

A tree. It grows to 50 m high. The trunk is 120 cm across. There are buttresses 3 m high. It can have stilt roots when in swamp forest. The bark is smooth, deeply cracked and scaly. The twigs are 2-3.5 mm thick. They have white to reddish hairs. The leaves are loosely clustered at the tips of the twigs. They are papery to thinly leathery. They are oval and 3-23 cm long by 1.5-10 cm wide. There are hairs on the midrib underneath. The edges of the leaves are wavy. There are 6-14 pairs of secondary veins. These are raised underneath the leaf. The leaf stalk is 6-32 mm long by 1 mm wide and grooved above. The flowers are greenish yellow. There are 3-20 per cluster. They occur in the axils of leaves or on old leaf scars. The fruit are round or oval and 2-3 cm long. The fruit stalk is 22 mm long. There are 1-2 seeds inside. The fruit are edible.

Where it is found

A tropical plant. It grows in lowland forest and seasonally flooded swamp forest. It can grow up to 1300 m altitude.

Countries/locations it is found in

Asia, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, SE Asia

How it is used for food

The fruit are sour and are eaten.

Edible parts

Seeds, oil, fruit

How it is grown

Its other names

Local names

Kayu tanjong hutan, Nato nasi, Nyato, Nyatu, Nyatu tangkai, Pohon nyatoh jongkang, Pokok jongek, Tanjung hutan

Synonyms

Croixia hexandra (Griff.) Bahni; Dichopsis hexandra (Griff.) C. B. Clarke; Isonandra hexandra Griff.; Palaquium pisang Burck.;