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Similar Cratoxylum, Cratoxylum cochinchinense, Clusiaceae, Hypericaceae, Cratoxylum maingayi | ||
Khmer vegetable 17 mempat tree cratoxylum formosum
Cratoxylum formosum or pink mempat is a species of flowering plant in the Hypericaceae family. Its commercial name in timber production is "mampat".
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It is a tropical plant found in Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The trees flower when there is dry weather followed by wet weather than dry weather again. It has pink flowers and can be up to 20 meters tall, though they rarely achieve the size required for timber exploitation.
In Laos, Cratoxylum fomosum trees are used:
Local names:
Cratoxylum formosum bai taew
References
Cratoxylum formosum Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA