Kuning Telor

Kuning Telor

Pouteria campechiana

Keluarga : Fabaceae

Genera : Pouteria

Nama Saintifik : Pouteria campechiana

Nama Tempatan : Kuning telor

Asal-usul dan Taburan: 

Berasal dari Amerika Tengah, tetapi kini boleh didapati di seluruh sub-tropika.

Deskripsi Tumbuhan :

Ketinggian mencecah 8 m tinggi dan batang boleh mencapai diameter 1 m. Kulit kayu beralur bergetah.Daun berwarna hijau, berkilat, berbentuk bujur atau tirus, 11.3-28 cm panjang dan 4-7.5 cm lebar. Bunganya wangi , bunga biseksual, tidak berjambak atau dalam kelompok kecil. Buah seakan bulat, hujungnya tajam dan seakan berbentuk telur.. Apabila masak buahnya berwarna hijau, keras dan bergetah. Bila masak, kulit bertukar warna kuning keemasan, licin dan berkilat. Mempunyai antara 1 hingga 4 biji keras, bersaiz antara 2-5.3 cm panjang dan 1.3-3.2 cm lebar, berbentuk bujur, berkilat, lurus dan hujungnya tajam

Kegunaan :

-Buahnya boleh dimakan tetapi tidak digalakkan kerana kurang berjus seperti tumbuhan lain.
-Buahnya boleh dikeringkan dan dijadikan tepung bernutrisi untuk kegunaan pudding campuran.
-Air rebusan kulitnya boleh digunakan sebagai penawar bagi masalah kulit sensitif.
-Bijinya pula digunakan untuk merawat ulser.

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

Family : Fabaceae

Genus : Pouteria

Scientific name : Pouteria campechiana

Vernacular name : Kuning telor

Origin and distribution: 

Originally from Central America, but currently cultivated across the (sub-)tropics.

Plant description:

Erect tree of generally not more than 8 m tall, but it may, in favourable situations, reach heights of 27-30 m and the trunk may attain a diameter of 1 m. Slender in habit or with a spreading crown, it has brown, furrowed bark and abundant white, gummy latex. Young branches are velvety brown. The evergreen leaves, alternate but mostly grouped at the branch tips, are relatively thin, glossy, short to long-stemmed, oblanceolate, lanceolate-oblong, or obovate, bluntly pointed at the apex, more sharply tapered at the base; 11.3-28 cm long, 4-7.5 cm wide. Fragrant, bisexual flowers, solitary or in small clusters, are borne in the leaf axils or at leafless nodes on slender pedicels. They are 5- or 6-lobed, cream-colored, silky-hairy, about 8-11 mm long. The fruit, extremely variable in form and size, may be nearly round, with or without a pointed apex or curved beak, or may be somewhat oval, ovoid, or spindle-shaped. It is often bulged on one side and there is a 5-pointed calyx at the base, which may be rounded, or with a distinct depression. Length varies from 7.5-12.5 cm and width from 5-7.5 cm, except in the shrubby form, which has nearly round fruits only 2.5 cm long. When unripe the fruit is green-skinned, hard and gummy internally. On ripening, the skin turns lemon yellow, golden-yellow or pale orange-yellow, is very smooth and glossy except where occasionally coated with light-brown or reddish-brown russetting. There may be 1 to 4 hard, freestone seeds, 2-5.3 cm long and 1.3-3.2 cm wide, near-oval or oblong-oval, glossy and chestnut-brown except for the straight or curved ventral side which is dull light-brown, tan or greyish-white. Both ends are sharp-tipped.

Uses:

-The fruit is edible, but not highly regarded as it is not crispy and juicy like so many other fruits.
-The fruit could also be dehydrated and reduced to a nutritious powder and this might well have commercial use in pudding mixes. 

-A decoction of the astringent bark is taken as a febrifuge in Mexico and applied on skin eruptions in Cuba.
-A preparation of the seeds has been employed as a remedy for ulcers.