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Artocarpus

Artocarpus tamaran

Also called Elephant jack, Tamaran

Artocarpus
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Moraceae (Fig & mulberry family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Artocarpus tamaran, also known as elephant jack in English, tarap tempunan in Malay, and more locally as timbangan, tamaran, entawa or wi yang, is a species of flowering plant, a fruit tree in the fig family, that is native to Southeast Asia.

Where it grows

The species is endemic to Borneo, where it occurs naturally in lowland, coastal and hill mixed dipterocarp forest, as well as in secondary forest, up to an elevation of 600 m.

Other Artocarpus plants

Breadfruit · Entawak · Antipolo · Breadfruit · Artocarpus chama · Artocarpus dadah · Artocarpus · Artocarpus glaucus · Artocarpus gomezianus · Jackfruit · Hirsute artocarpus · Breadfruit

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artocarpus tamaran by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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