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Pangium edule
About
Pangium edule (Indonesian: keluak or keluwak; Malay: kepayang) is a tall tree native to the mangrove swamps of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea). It produces a large poisonous fruit (the "football fruit") which can be made edible by fermentation.
- Family
- Achariaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pangium edule
- Slug
- pangium-edule
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Achariaceae
- Genus
- Pangium
- Species
- edule
- Wikidata QID
- Q974608
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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