Ludai
A09 / A12 / A13 / A15
Common Name
Ludai
Scientific Name
Sapium baccatum
Growth Form and Foliage
- Small to medium-sized trees up to 30 - 39 m tall.
- Columnar to sinuous, up to 60 - 95 cm in diameter.
- Leaves arranged spirally, simple, entire to serrate; petiole with 2 glands at apex, red; stipules minute.
Flowers
- The flowers exude a sweet smell.
- Two types of inflorescences can be found: purely staminate ones, regularly branched with long branches (each usually 5 - 7 cm long); and bisexual ones, hardly branched and with shorter branches (each 2 - 3 cm long).
- The trees do not flower annually and fruit set is rare in the Malaysian population.
Fruits
- The fruits are edible, mealy and sweet and have been known to be used to treat ulcers by locals in Pahang, Malaysia.
- Small fruit, woody or leathery capsule dehiscing into 4 - 6 parts often leaving the central column.
- Seeds are black, with a thin, fleshy sarcotesta.
Habitat
Sapium species are found scattered in well drained primary and secondary evergreen to deciduous rain forests, up to 800 m altitude.
Ethnobotanical features
- Antimicrobial and cytotoxic constituents from leaves.
- Tropical timber species.
looking forward
to meet you
Open daily, 7:00AM – 6:30PM
*Last entry is at 4.30pm
Lot 201064, Jalan Melati
53100, KL East, Kuala Lumpur.
+6019 300 3634*
info@kleastpark.com
* Kindly note that we are unable to respond to text or
WhatsApp messages
via this number presently, only telephone calls.
Do drop us an email instead. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Do drop us an email instead. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.
