TO KNOW OUR FRUITS/PLANTS-1

SONNERATIA CASEOLARIS (BUAH PEDADA) Many people especially younger generations dont know about this plant. One day, one of my collegue brought the fruits in the staffroom, many of my collegues asked what the fruit was.

The fruit is persimmon-like with sepals whose tips bend away from the stalk. Found near the banks of tidal rivers in brackish water.It grows wild and the fruits are usualy eaten by monkeys. When ripe, the fruits are eaten raw or cooked. It is best taken raw with shrimp paste codiments. Fermented fruit juice is said to be useful in arresting haemorrhage. The wall of an old fruit is given as a vermifuge. The juice of half-ripe fruit is used to treat coughs. The juice of the flowers enters into a compound for treating blood in the urine. Pneumatophores were used as corks and floats.