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A moderate-sized tree from the Indo-Malaysian and South Pacific region, found on sea fronts and river valleys. It is a wild forest tree rather than a common garden or houseplant.
Atuna racemosa subsp. racemosa is a subspecies of Atuna racemosa, a plant species in the family Chrysobalanaceae.
It is a tree of moderate size, widespread over the Indo-Malaysian and South Pacific areas. It is found growing in such places as Papua New Guinea (kusta), Java, Borneo, Truk Islands (ais) and prolifically on the sea front and in the river valleys of Fiji (makita). This tree once provided the timber for the spars of canoes. The ovoid fruit which this tree bears have been used for medicinal purposes (Truk Is.), or as a glue and varnish in food bowl manufacture (Solomon Is.). Its seeds are a major source of alpha-Parinaric acid, a conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acid with various uses.
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