Durian Fruit

Durian Fruit
Durian (Durio zibethinus) is one of many tropical fruits native to South East Asia. The capsule fruit is usually large (up to 4 kg) and is characterized by a green to brownish skin fully covered by numerous thick spikes.

Its edible aril is soft and creamy with white or yellowish color. The aril has a sweet taste and strong dominated by fruity (estery) and unique sulfury notes. Due to its unique and highly characteristic flavor, durian is deemed as a delicacy and even regarded as the King of Fruits by local people.

Durian

Durian belongs to family Bombacaceae and it chromosome number is 2n = 56. It is a large evergreen tree. Flowers are white or pink in color and arranged in cymes. Fruit is a large, spherical, ovoid, spiny, green to yellow capsule that split into five valves.

Seeds are large and covered with a sweet, puppy, cream-colored, edible aril with one to six seeds per cell. Durian grows well in hot, humid climates with high rainfall. It prefers sandy loam soil. Seed and vegetative means are used for propagation.

This fruit can reduce lethality of alcohol. In India leaves and roots used in a prescription for fever. Leaves also used in medicinal bath during fever. For fruit walls used externally for skin disease.
Durian Fruit