Durian
Durio zibethinus · Malvaceae · 두리안
How to spot it
Identified by large spiny fruit growing directly on thick branches and leaves that are silvery to bronze beneath.
Look
- Leaves
- Long-elliptic leaves (6 to 20 cm long) with a rounded base and pointed tip; glossy green above and silvery to bronze beneath, so the two sides differ in color.
- Flowers
- Bright yellow flowers (5 to 7 cm wide) with a bell-shaped calyx grow in clusters of up to 30 directly on thick branches.
- Fruit
- A large fruit enclosed in a hard, spiny green-to-brown husk; the seeds are wrapped in a white to yellow fleshy aril (the edible pulp).
- Bark
- The bark is rough and peels.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to Sumatra and Borneo.