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Baccaurea polyneura is a tropical rainforest tree from Southeast Asia, grown mainly for its sour edible fruit called jentik. It is dioecious, so you need both a male and a female tree to get fruit.
Baccaurea polyneura is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is native to Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Peninsular Thailand. The fruit, called jentik, is edible, if sour, and is locally harvested and sold.
Baccaurea polyneura grows in the wild on sand, clay, loam and granite soils. It flowers and fruits at a year old. As a dioecious plant, it requires both a male and female counterpart to be grown to cultivate fruit and seed.
The edible fruit is collected from the wild and can sometimes be found in local markets.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Baccaurea polyneura by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
