Flora de Filipinas 1880

• Flowers:
• Plant Class:Evergreen tree
• Leaves:long narrow peach-like leaves; flowers a greeny-yellow colour, in terminal bunches,
• Fruit: Apricot scent and taste, seeds are oval, blacky-grey colour
• Preferred Habitat:Tropical forest
• Flowering Season:March to April
• Distribution:Native to India, Pakistan and Indonesia found throughout Asia, Australia and is common in former British tropical colonies.
• A tree from 20 to 30 feet high, with long narrow peach-like leaves; flowers a greeny-yellow colour, in terminal bunches, blooming in July; the fruit about the size of a hen's egg, varying from white to red and rose colour, in scent and taste like a ripe apricot. It was cultivated in England by Miller in 1768. The bark is dense and hard, pinky or reddy-brown colour, with a thick corky substance, whitish grey mottled, often ridged; the inner surface has a silky lustre; freshly fractured it shows a colour varying from fawn to a pinky purple, abruptly shortly fibrous; seeds are oval, 1/2 inch long and 1/5 inch round, hard, heavy, blacky-grey colour, almost tasteless. ^{Grieve, Maude Modern Herbal (1931)}