Region: east Asia, Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia.
Habitat: primary and secondary rainforest; peat and heath forest; bamboo forest; plains as well as slopes and crests; dry places but also river banks, marshes, or periodically flooded areas; variety of soils, sand, sandy clay, fertile volcanic loam and peat; with a subsoil of granite, sandstone, or limestone; tolerant of periodic inundation of the soil.
Use: timber; fruit, fleshy part, sweet and of good flavour is edible.
BotanyTree; 25 metres tall.
Stem: with buttresses; 30 to 75 cm in diameter.
Flowers: flowers all year round.
Fruit: thin, yellow to orange; fleshy.