Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. Mak Phai

Synonym: B. sapida (Roxb) Muell. Arg., B. cauliflora Lour., B. wrayi King ex Hook. f. Family: EUPHORBIACEAE Other names: Local names: Phu noi: cha chouay see. Thai: mafai, mak fai pa, khi mi, sae khrua sae, somfai, hamkang, pha yio. Vietnamese: giau gia dhat, giau tien, dzau mien dzuoi, you vo do, bung. Burmese: kanazo. Cambodian: phnhiew. English: Burmese grape

Use: Fruits are sweet to sour, also used in stews or to make wine. Eating to many fruit gives an upset stomach. Fruits also medicinally used for skin diseases. Bark, root and wood is also medicinal.

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Harvesting: Bark is collected year round. Fruits when ripe.

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Processing: Bark, roots and wood are dried and ground before boiling in water. Fruits can be kept for 4_5 days, but when boiled and mixed with salt after which it is kept in well closed jars.

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Marketing: Locally used and sold.

Market prospects: Marginal importance of the fruit, locally used and sold.

Propagation: Vegetative reproduction is uncommon and trees are planted sometimes by seed. Coppicing is possible. Mafai seeds germinate easily and fast and is commonly done. Air layering can also be made as well as budding and grafting to obtain the required type of plant.

Description: Rami/cauliflorous evergreen tree to 25 m, with spreading crown, DBH to 50 cm, with thin bark. Leaves, alternate, ovate_lanceolate, 10_20 cm by 4_9 cm, young leaves reddish, brown pubescent. The petiole is 1_8 cm long with lanceolated and fimbriated stipules. Inflorescence on old branches or on trunk, red_pink tomentose; male racemes 3_8 cm long, pale yellow; female racemes 14 cm long and born lower on the trunk, yellow, fragrant. Fruit, ovoid, yellowish, pinkish to bright red or purple, 2.5_3.5 cm in diameter, glabrous, with 2_4 large purple_red seed, with white aril.

Distribution & Ecology: Found all over Asia, most commonly cultivated in India and Malaysia. Slow growing. Grows in humid evergreen forest, and disturbed margins, near streams, on wide range of soils, such as sandstone and limestone bedrock.

References: PROSEA, FT, NVPL59, FGBEFP03, NTFPCP00, FGFTNT00, BKF, TPN, FAO4.4.