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General Information

Aglaia korthalsii is an evergreen tree growing up to 34 metres tall. The bole can be free of branches for up to 16 metres, up to 74cm in diameter, with triangular buttresses up to 2 metres high and outwards for 150cm, and fluted above[, ].
The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood. It is cultivated for its fruit in some parts of its range[].
Habitat loss could pose a threat to this species. 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

E. Asia - Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines.

Habitat

A mid-canopy tree in undisturbed mixed dipterocarp to sub-montane forests at elevations up to 1,400 metres. Usually on alluvial sites, but also common on hillsides and ridges. On sandy to clay soils, but also common on or near limestone[].

Properties

Conservation Status	Near Threatened
Edibility Rating
Other Uses Rating
Habit	Evergreen Tree
Height	30.00 m
Pollinators	Insects
Self-fertile	No
Cultivation Status	Cultivated, Wild

Cultivation Details

A dioecious species, both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw[, ]. The juicy or gelatinous, sweet or rather bitter tasting, fleshy layer (aril) around the seed is eaten[]. The orange, ellipsoid to subglobose fruits are 20 - 40mm long and 10 - 50mm wide, containing up to 3 seeds each surrounded by a thin layer of edible flesh[].

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 is a pale pink, a pale yellow, yellow or white[]. The wood is used for house poles[, ].

Propagation

Seed -

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