Kandis

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Description

Small or medium-sized evergreen tree to 18 m tall with narrow crown. Leaves 6-13 cm long, opposite, narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate. Male flowers 1-1.4 cm long, pale yellow or pink, solitary or in few-flowered clusters; female flowers c. 1.5 cm across, solitary or in 2-3 together in simple cluster, cream. Fruits to 3-8 cm across, spherical or oval with 5-8 shallow grooves seated on persistent sepals and petals, ripening yellow to orange.

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Ecology

Lowland evergreen forest.

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Distribution

E to NE India, S China, Bangladesh, Andaman Is., Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia.

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Uses

Young leaves are eaten as vegetable, either raw or cooked. Fruits are edible but very sour, just like G. atroviridis used to flavour curries or sour soups.