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Medicine - Indigenous people of Nepal for medicinal purposes such as rheumatism, asthma, and ulcer. Food - Oil is extracted from seed and used as a source of cooking oil. Industrial - Fruit extraction is used to prepare jams and jelly, oil used in cakes, pastry, biscuits, candies, condiments.
Bhutan, China, India, Nepal
Subtropical biome,altitude 1600m.
Evergreen tree 25m tall
Elliptic-oblong, ovate, or ovate-oblong, 17-35 X 8-17 cm, leathery, yellowish-brown to brown velvety, base wedge- shaped, tip blunt to blunt with a narrow point
Flowers are 1.5-2 cm, petals 8-10, oblong, ovate, or narrowly obovate, 8-10 X 5-8 mm, tip blunt to pointed, margin usually irregularly toothed
Fruit is ovoid-globose to oblong, 2-2.5 X 1-1.5 cm, smooth, tip pointed, exocarp fleshy, 1-3-seeded
Flowering