Scorodocarpus borneensis (Bail.) Becc.

An evergreen, medium-sized to large tree up to 40(-60) m tall, all parts smelling of garlic; bole columnar, branchless for up to 25 m, up to 80(-150) cm in diameter, often piped, occasionally with small buttresses; bark surface shallowly fissured and flaking into thin rectangles, grey-brown to dark red-brown, inner bark fibrous, purplish-red, inwards with orange flecks. Leaves arranged spirally, simple, entire, exstipulate; petiole swollen distally. Flowers in an axillary, short raceme, 4-5-merous; calyx cup-shaped, margin wavy to toothed; petals reflexed, white, hairy inside; stamens 8 or 10, inserted in pairs about halfway on the petal; ovary superior, imperfectly 3-4-locular with a single ovule in each cell, stigma minutely lobed. Fruit a thinly fleshy, subglobular, 1-seeded, green drupe; endocarp woody with vertical strands. Seedling with hypogeal germination; cotyledons not emergent; hypocotyl not developed; epicotyl with a few scale leaves followed by normal, spirally arranged leaves. Sapling leaves are alternate-distichous on the branches but arranged spirally on the orthotropic leader.

In Peninsular Malaysia flowering is in January-July and fruiting more or less throughout the year; in Borneo fruiting is usually in June-September.

S. borneensis occurs scattered but may be locally common or even gregarious in primary rain forest,

S. borneensis can be propagated by seed or by wildlings. The seeds show about 70% germination in 11-32 months, fruits have about 40% germination in 9-16 months. Stumps may coppice easily.

For optimal growth it requires well-drained soils.

Before storage seeds should be sun-dried for about 10 days. There are about 27 000 dry pyrenes/kg.

Food: In Sarawak the young leaves are eaten as a vegetable. The fruit is edible and is sometimes used as a substitute for garlic. "Medicine: The fruits and also an infusion of the bark are sometimes used as an antidote for ""antiaris"" (Antiaris toxicaria Lesch.) poisoning. An extract from the fruits shows antimicrobial activity." Timber: The wood of Scorodocarpus is used for medium to heavy construction under cover (beams, joists, posts, door and window frames, flooring, rafters), bridge building, salt-water piling (with bark on), boat keels, mine props, transmission posts, agricultural implements and sleepers in temporary railway lines.