Kundang

Kundang

Bouea Macrophylla

Keluarga : Anacardiaceae

Genera : Bouea

Nama Saintifik : Bouea macrophylla 

Nama Tempatan :

Kundang, gandaria, djantake, gunarjah, kendarah, djatake, pao gandaria.
asam suku, kondongan, kundang(an), kundang hutan, medang asam, pako kundangan, rembunia, remenya, rumenia, rumia, serapoh, serapok, setar, ramania (Langkat).

Asal-usul dan Taburan :

Berasal dari utara Sumatera, Semenanjung Malaysia dan barat Jawa, pokok ini ditanam secara meluas sebagai pokok buah di Sumatera, Borneo dan Ambon, serta Thailand.

Deskripsi Tumbuhan :

Pokonya boleh mencapai sehingga 27m tinggi dan 55cm diameter. Kulitnya berwarna coklat kekelabuan atau berwarna gelap. Daunnya berbentuk bujur dan saiznya diantara 14-30cm panjang dan 5-8cm lebar. Bunganya berwarna kuning kehijauan, kuning cair dan akan bertukar kepada warna coklat apabila tua. Buahnya berwarna oren gelap. Isinya lembut dan berserat. Bijinya pula berwarna ungu.

Kegunaan :

-Rupanya yang seperti buah manga amat popular di kalangan penggemarnya. Buahnya yang telah masak boleh dimakan begitu sahaja atau dijadikan sirap dan manisan.

-Buahnya yang masih muda boleh dijadikan bahan untuk dijadikan sambal.

-Kayunya tahan lama tetapi penggunaannya tidak begitu komersial.

*penggunaan tumbuhan ini sebagai ubatan bergantung kepada kesesuaian individu dan saranan daripada pengamal perubatan amatlah digalakkan.

Family: Anacardiaceae

Genus: Bouea

Scientific name: Bouea macrophylla

Vernacular name:

Kundang, gandaria, djantake, gunarjah, kendarah, djatake, pao gandaria.
asam suku, kondongan, kundang(an), kundang hutan, medang asam, pako kundangan, rembunia, remenya, rumenia, rumia, serapoh, serapok, setar, ramania (Langkat).

Origin and distribution:

Native to north Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and west Java, and is cultivated widely as a fruit tree in Sumatra, the wetter parts of Java, Borneo and Ambon, as well as Thailand (where it is locally important).

Plant description:

Tree up to 27 m high and 55 cm diameter. Bark light greyish brown, or dark coloured, finely fissured. Terminal (vegetative) buds broadly ovoid or ovoid, 4-6 by 3.5-5 mm, scales of outer pair usually shorter than the total length of bud. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, or elliptic to narrowly elliptic, (11.5-)14.5-30 by (4-)5-8 cm (on sterile specimens up to 45 by 13 cm), glabrous; base acute to cuneate, rarely obtuse; apex acute to acuminate; nerves 15-25 pairs, veins reticulate, sometimes faint; petiole l-2.5 cm. Panicles 4.5-10(-12.5) cm long; pedicels 0-2 mm. Flowers light yellowish green or light yellow, soon becoming brown. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, c. 0.7 mm long. Petals oblong, or oblong-obovate, 1.5-2.5 by c. 1 mm. Stamens 0.6-1 mm; anthers apiculate. Disk small, thin, c. 0.7 mm diameter. Ovary c. 0.5 mm diameter. Drupe subglobose, 3.5-5 by 3-4 cm, yellow or orange when ripe; cotyledons blue-violet.

Uses:

-A popular fruit tree with diminutive mango-like fruits. The fruit is much consumed fresh, cooked in syrup or made into an excellent compote.

-The young fruits is serve as ingredient of a special kind of 'sambal', the chilli-based condiment, and in pickles ('asinan'), the bright purple cotyledons in the big seed adding to the attraction of the concoction. The young leaves which are deep violet, sometimes strikingly white when they emerge are also consumed fresh, to be eaten with the gandaria- flavoured 'sambal'.

-The timber is durable but only used for minor purposes.