FARMER KEDONDONG (Spondias dulcis)

Kedondong trees including tall trees. Can reach a height of 20 to 30 meters. In fact, if allowed to continue to grow, the tree can have diameters of 50 to 60 centimeters. Kedondong fruit which are ripe. mixed with a little sweet, sour taste. Many people who like
eat the fruit is not too ripe. Even young men who made those for rujak materials. Colored ripe Kedondong
fulvous. Colored flesh like that too. The young fruit is green and the flesh is white and a little bit sticky. In addition eaten as fresh fruit, Kedondong also made pickled or candied fruit. In this way the fruit Kedondong
This can be stored for a long time.

Kedondong plants can grow well in the lowlands to the mountains at an altitude of 750 meters above sea level. Kedondong tree is very easy to grow in dry climates, but in the loose soil, the dry season, all leaves
fall, so you see only the branches and twigs branches only. In the rainy season, bare it started to sprout again, which is followed immediately by the growth of leaves and later flowering of new, shaped like a flower Kedondong sponge with yellow. Flowering season in June, August. The fruit is ripe in January to April. Tree elderly Kedondong felled, at least the wood can also be used for firewood. New plantings by planting seeds, but it can also be done by way of patches or grafting. Besides the fruit, the leaves were used as a vegetable or ralap. Flavor young leaves sour, so did the young petiole.
The so-called seed is part of his men who had penetrated the root fibers such as pulp. Seed or root fibers is a barrier to enjoying the fresh fruit dagrng it. In Latin Kedondong called.
Spondias dulcis. Name, the other in Latin; Spondias cythera. These plants come from our country Selatan.Di America are two varieties
Kedondong. First, Kedondong Bali, large fruit. Second,
Kedondong Gravel, ordinary men and have normal smell and taste are typical. Young fruit is made rujak rujak petis or sweet, mixed with other fruits, do not stand for that spicy taste can enjoy kedondong rujak already made sweets. The young leaves as yarg
mentioned above, could be engulfed in a sauce or a mixture made
vegetable acids. Apart from that, the young leaves kedondong which can also be used to soften the tough meat. Tough meat was cooked with kedondong leaves. To get a quick Kedondong tree berbuoh, should take cuttings as seedlings. Planting is done by spacing of 12 m.