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General Information

Aglaia forbesii is an evergreen tree with a dense, rounded crown; it can grow up to 35 metres tall. The bole can be up to 60cm in diameter[].
The edible fruit is harvested from the wild for local use.
The tree is potentially threatened by habitat loss. It is classified as 'Near Threatened' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2011)[].

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

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Range

Southeast Asia - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia.

Habitat

A canopy or sub-canopy tree in evergreen, primary, secondary, or moss forests; found mainly along rivers, on sand, clay, sandy loam, sandstone, ultrabasic soils at elevations from near sea level to 1,000 metres[].

Properties

Conservation Status	Near Threatened
Edibility Rating
Habit	Evergreen Tree
Height	25.00 m
Pollinators	Insects
Self-fertile	No
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

Not known

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw[, ]. The seeds are covered in a translucent, gelatinous, yellow or pink flesh (aril) with a sweet-sour flavour[]. The flavour can be similar to that of the langsat (Lansium domesticum)[]. The fruits are up to 40mm long and 38mm wide, containing up to 2 seeds[].

Medicinal

The genus 'Aglaia' is the only source of the group of about 50 known representatives of compounds that bear a unique cyclopenta[b]tetrahydrobenzofuran skeleton. These compounds are more commonly called rocaglate or rocaglamide derivatives, or flavaglines, and most have been found to have potent insecticidal properties, antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial or anthelmintic bioactivity. Several of them exhibit pronounced cytotoxic activity against a range of human cancers. Since the first representative in this group was only discovered in 1982, this is one of the few recent examples of a completely new class of plant secondary metabolites of biological promise (see B. G. Wang et al., Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 32: 1223-1226. 2004; L.W. Chaidir et al., J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1216-1220. 2001)[, ].

Other Uses

The genus 'Aglaia' is the only source of the group of about 50 known representatives of compounds that bear a unique cyclopenta[b]tetrahydrobenzofuran skeleton. These compounds are more commonly called rocaglate or rocaglamide derivatives, or flavaglines, and most have been found to have potent insecticidal properties, antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial or anthelmintic bioactivity. Several of them exhibit pronounced cytotoxic activity against a range of human cancers. Since the first representative in this group was only discovered in 1982, this is one of the few recent examples of a completely new class of plant secondary metabolites of biological promise (see B. G. Wang et al., Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 32: 1223-1226. 2004; L.W. Chaidir et al., J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1216-1220. 2001)[, ].

The sapwood can be orange-brown, pale brown, pale yellowish-brown or sometimes reddish-brown[].

Propagation

Seed -

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