Cerapu

Cerapu

Garcinia prainiana

Keluarga : Clusiaceae
Genera : Garcinia
Nama Saintifik : Garcinia prainiana
Nama Tempatan : Cerapu, Manggis butang, chepu, kechupu, menchupu, chekau, chupak.
Asal-usul dan Taburan: Asia, Borneo.

Deskripsi Tumbuhan : 

Ia adalah pokok malar hijau yang rendang dan boleh membesar sehingga 10m tinggi. Kulitnya berwarna coklat dan mempunyai getah berwarna putih. Daunnya berbentuk bujur dengan saiznya 10-23cm panjang dan 4.5-11.5cm lebar. Bunganya berkilat dan berwarna merah jambu-jingga dengan saiz sebesar 2cm lebar. Buahnya berwarna oren kekuningan apabila masak dan saiznya adalah 2.5-5cm lebar dan isinya lembut.

Family : Clusiaceae
Genus : Garcinia
Scientific name : Garcinia prainiana
Vernacular name : Cerapu, button mangosteen, chepu, kechupu, menchupu, chekau, chupak.

Origin and distribution: Asia -  Borneo.

Plant description:

A small, evergreen tree growing to 10 m high with a narrow, dense and bushy crown with rough, greyish-brown bark. It has white latex. The leaves are subsessile, large, ovate-oblong, 10-23 cm long, 4.5-11.5 cm wide, coriaceous, simple with entire margin, tapering apex and with distinct lateral veins raised below, faint above. Flower are pentamerous, pinkish 2 cm wide and formed in dense, round clusters on terminal shoots or on leafless lateral shoot. Male flowers have stamens in 5 bundles around a pistillode. The fruits are depressed globose and smooth, 2.5-5cm wide, ripening to orange-yellow, with a thin leathery, smooth  rind and with a persistent stigma as a blackish button-like, raised done-shaped papillose and with persistent sepals and calyx in the stem end.  Seeds are  embedded in the subacid but sweet pale orange pulp.