English: Sapistan plum.
Region: east Asia, Indian subcontinent.
Habitat: tropics and subtropics; dry deciduous woodland; on alluvial soil; up to 1500 metres; tolerates some frost; prefers a sunny position,tolerates moderate shade; prefers a moist, freely-draining loamy soil; drought tolerant.
Content: palmitic, stearic, olic and linoleic acids, β-sitosterol; pyrrolizidine alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids, saponins, terpenes, sterols.
Use: food, medicine; materials; bark fibre for twines, cordages, caulking boats; fruit, raw or cooked, as vegetable, mixed with honey for sweetmeat, gruels, porridges; flowers, leaves and young shoots, cooked, as a vegetable; shelter-belts in semi-arid regions to prevent soil erosion; leaves and fruits as dyes, staining linen; ash of the young branches for soap; fruit pulp, sticky, mucilaginous as a glue; wood as fire-sticks, for furniture, cabinet work, well curbs, boats, agricultural implements.
BotanyShrub or tree; large; evergreen; dense crown; up to 12 metres tall; fairly fast-growing.
Stem: stout; crooked; wood yellow-brown, soft but strong, easy to polish.
Flowers: dioecious.
Pollination: by insects.
Fruit: ovoid; 35 mm in diameter; sweet, sticky, mucilaginous flesh; taste like a Corylus maxima.
Sees: oily.