Trees are always green and growing fast, can reach 30 m high Bark dark gray to whitish, with lots of trees that emit latex, a thick white sap when wounded.
Single leaf-golden brown (chrysophyllum means golden leaf), because of the fine hairs that grow mainly on the underside of the leaves and the rerantingan; upper surface of the hot-shaven and bright green. Take turns sitting leaves, scattered, oval to circular inverted eggs, 3-6 x 5-16 cm, such as skin, 0,6-1,7 cm long stemmed.
Located in the armpit Perbungaan leaves, a group of 5-35 small flowers, long-stemmed small, yellowish-white to lavender, cotton candy. Petals 5 strands, round up, round eggs; crown bercuping tubulate 5, round eggs, up to 4 mm long.
Buni fruit is round to oval breech, 5-10 cm in diameter, with smooth shiny skin of the fruit, purplish brown or yellowish-green to whitish. Skin rather thick, clay, many contain latex and can not be eaten. Flesh white or purple fruit, soft and high in fruit juice, sweet, wrapped in white endokarp consisting of 4-11 space that looks like a star when cut crosswise. 3-10 seed grain, slightly flattened oval, light brown to dark purple, hard shiny.
Usability :
Chrysophyllum cainito generally consumed as fresh fruit, although can also be used as a raw material of ice cream or sherbet (sherbet). Duren sapodilla trees to bear fruit after 5-6 years of age, and usually the peak season in the Java fruit in the dry season.
In addition, many parts of the medicinal trees; eg bark, sap, fruits and seeds. Boiled leaves are used to treat diabetes and rheumatism. From pepagannya (bark) produced tonic and cough medicine.
The tree is often used as an ornamental and shade trees in parks and side streets. The wood is good enough as a building material. And branches of old used to grow orchids.
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