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    Know about Kubal Madu

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    Kubal Madu is a vigorous climbing shrub which produces woody stems upto 60 meters long. Stems climb to the top of the trees in forests. Woody shoots attach themselves to other plants by hooked, leafless branchlets. It is a perennial, evergreen woody climber having branches bearing tendrils form from modified inflorescences. Leaves are opposite and distichous on short petioles. Flowers are yellowish-white, pentamerous and actinimorphic. Fruit is a globose, fleshy berry, golden yellow to orangey yellow and indehiscent. Seeds are smooth, ovoid having thin endosperm and thick horny cotyledons and embedded in mucilaginous orangey yellow pulp.

    Culinary uses

    • The pulp of ripe fruit is consumed raw.
    • Make the juice from ripe fruit.

    References:

    https://www.inetfarms.com/willughbeia_angustifolia.php

    http://www.tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Willughbeia+angustifolia

    http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-malesiana/node/14327

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    Kubal Madu Quick Facts
    Name: Kubal Madu
    Scientific Name: Willughbeia angustifolia
    Origin Nicobar Island to Malesia. It is commonly found wild in Borneo (Brunei, Sarawak, Sabah and Indonesian Kalimantan).
    Colors Golden yellow to orangey yellow
    Shapes Fleshy berry, globose, 1.9-14 by 1.9-14 cm
    Name Kubal Madu
    Scientific Name Willughbeia angustifolia
    Native Nicobar Island to Malesia. It is commonly found wild in Borneo (Brunei, Sarawak, Sabah and Indonesian Kalimantan).
    Common/English Name Pitabu, Kubal Madu, Serapit
    Name in Other Languages Kalimantan: Pitabu, Gitak Madu;
    Sabah: Kabal Madu, Serapit;
    Sarawak: Kubal Madu, Akar Kubal
    Plant Growth Habit Perennial, evergreen woody climber
    Growing Climate Tropical
    Stem 60 meters long
    Flower Pentamerous, yellowish-white
    Fruit shape & size Fleshy berry, globose, 1.9-14 by 1.9-14 cm
    Fruit color Golden yellow to orangey yellow
    Seed Compressed, ovoid, smooth, 1.2-2.4 by 0.6-1.4 by 0.6-1.1 cm

    Kubal Madu Scientific Classification

    Scientific Name: Willughbeia angustifolia

    Rank Scientific Name & (Common Name)
    Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
    Phylum Tracheophyta
    Class Magnoliopsida
    Order Gentianales
    Family Apocynaceae
    Genus Willughbeia Roxb.
    Synonyms
    • Ancylocladus rufescens (Dyer ex Hook.fil.) Kuntze
    • Chilocarpus brachyanthus Pierre
    • Urnularia rufescens (Dyer ex Hook.f.) Pichon
    • Vahea angustifolia Miq.
    • Willughbeia angustifolia var. gracilior Markgr.
    • Willughbeia apiculata Miq.
    • Willughbeia elmeri Merr.
    • Willughbeia rufescens Dyer
    • Willughbeia rufescens Dyer ex Hook.f.
    • Willughbeiopsis rufescens (Dyer ex Hook.f.) Rauschert.
    • Willughbeiopsis rufescens (Dyer ex J.D.Hook.) S.Rauschert