Durio testudinarius Becc.
Taxonomy
- Species:
- Durio testudinarius Becc.
- Genus:
- Durio
- Family:
- Bombacaceae
Synonym(s)
Properties
Botanic
A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, with bole up to 40 cm in diameter having low and rounded buttresses.
Leaves elliptical, 19-26 cm x 6-9 cm, densely appressed scaly below.
Flowers in short inflorescence on the trunk in a ring close to the ground, petals up to 70 mm long, white, stamens in bundles united at base into a long tube, opening by a slit.
Fruit a globose capsule 10-15 cm in diameter, greenish-yellow, superficially 5-lobed, covered with conical-pyramidal spines 7-10 mm long, fruit stalk 8-10 cm long
Seed completely covered with a yellow aril.
D. testudinarum is closely related to and possibly conspecific with D. affinis.
Soil Suitability
In Sarawak it is locally frequent on clay-rich well-drained soils
Habitat
D. testudinarum occurs in lowland mixed dipterocarp forest, often in hilly country.
Cultivation and Marketing
Cultivation
Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah and western Kalimantan); sometimes cultivated (e.g. in Brunei).
Uses and Function
Food: The fleshy yellow arils around the seeds are edible.
Timber: The wood is reputed to be used as durian.
Variable
Wood Density
5 rows
| 0.52 | 0.74 | 0.6300 | 15 | Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerjanegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (Editors), 1995. Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(2). Timber trees: Minor commercial timbers. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 655 pp. | ||
| 0.55 | 0.69 | 0.79 | 0.6900 | 15 | Oey Djoen Seng (1951) in Soewarsono (1990). Specific Gravity of Indonesian Woods and its Significance for Practical Use, FRDC, Forestry Department, Bogor, Indonesia | |
| 0.6 | 0.6000 | Desch, H.E. 1996. Timber: structure, properties, conversion and use. 7th Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. | South-East Asia (tropical) | |||
| 0.55 | 0.5500 | Oey Djoen Seng (1951) in Soewarsono (1990). Specific Gravity of Indonesian Woods and its Significance for Practical Use, FRDC, Forestry Department, Bogor, Indonesia | South-East Asia (tropical) | |||
| 0.51 | 0.5100 | Soerjanegara and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors), 1994. PROSEA 5(1): Timber trees: Major commercial timbers. | South-East Asia (tropical) |
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Statistic Summary of Wood Density (g/cm³)
- N
- 5
- Mean
- 0.5960
- Median
- 0.6000
- Mode
- -
- Stdv
- 0.0699
- Variance
- 0.0049
- Range
- [0.51, 0.69]
- If the Moisture Content column is undefined, you may assume the value of 15%
- The statistic summary is based on data availability in the database, thus it may change upon the data collection updates