It is a delicious tropical fruit and usually eaten fresh, sweeter than the rambutan and lychee
The Pulasan (Nephelium Mtabile Blume ) is native to Malaysia , Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. It is closely allied to the Rambutan. In the Philippines it is mostly known as bulala and in Thailand, it is known as Ngoh-Khonsan. It is a delicious tropical fruit and usually eaten fresh, sweeter than the rambutan and lychee, but very rare outside of Southeast Asia. The pulasan tree is a handsome ornamental; attains 10-15 m; has a short trunk to 30-40 cm thick; and the branchlets are brown-hairy when young. The alternate leaves, pinnate or odd-pinnate, and 17-45 cm long, have 2 to 5 pairs of opposite or nearly opposite leaflets, oblong-or elliptic-lanceolate, 6.25-17.5 cm long and up to 5 cm wide; slightly wavy, dark-green and barely glossy on the upper surface; pale, somewhat bluish, with a few short, silky hairs on the underside. Very small, greenish, petalless flowers with 4-5 hairy sepals, are borne singly or in clusters on the branches of the erect, axillary or terminal, panicles clothed with fine yellowish or brownish hairs. The pulasan is ultra-tropical and thrives only in very humid regions between 360 and 1,150 ft (110-350 in) of altitude. The fruit is ovoid, 5-7.5 cm long, dark-red, its thick, leathery rind closely set with conical, blunt-tipped tubercles or thick, fleshy, straight spines, to 1 cm long. There may be 1 or 2 small, undeveloped fruits nestled close to the stem. Within is the glistening, white or yellowish-white flesh (aril) to 1 cm thick, more or less clinging to the thin, grayish-brown seedcoat (testa) which separates from the seed. The Flavour is generally much sweeter than that of the rambutan. The seed is ovoid, oblong or ellipsoid, light brown, somewhat flattened on one side, 2-3.5 cm long. The tree was planted at the Trujillo Plant Propagation Station in Puerto Rico in 1926 and young trees from Java were sent to the Lancetilla Experimental Garden, Tela, Honduras, in 1927. The latter were said in 1945 to be doing well at Tela and fruiting moderately. The pulasan is little-known elsewhere in the New World except in Costa Rica where it is occasionally grown and the fruits sometimes appear on the market
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Product Type:
Other
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Style:
Fresh
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Type:
Rambutan
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