Rovak Fruit

$150.00

Strychnos nux-blanda is a shrub or small tree in the Loganiaceae family. It is native to Southeast Asia and Assam. The wood is used as fuel; seeds are toxic, but used in folk-medicine. It is one of the plants featured in the garden of King Narai (1633–88) at Lopburi, Thailand.

Syzygium samarangense is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to an area that includes the Greater Sunda Islands, Malay Peninsula, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but introduced in prehistoric times to a wider area and now widely cultivated in the tropics
Nutty flavor from the seeds complemented by a sweet undertone from the scant flesh.
Round fruit with a hard shell encasing edible seeds.
This species grows as a deciduous shrub or small tree, some 4–15 m tall. Leaves are broadly ovate, elliptic or suborbicular; some 9–22 × 7–16 cm in size, papery, smooth with a round base, acute to acuminate apex and 5–7 basal veins. The axillary thyrses are 4–6 cm in size. There are puberulent bracteoles. Flowers are present in fives, with a puberulent pedicel. Calyx has narrow oblong lobes some 3mm in size, outside glandular. White corolla are salverform, some 1–2 cm long, the tube is around 9 mm, the outside is villous near the base, narrowly elliptic lobes some 3mm, with there outside gandular