Balakata baccata

Cultivation Details

Found in the wild growing on brown and yellow clay and loam, sandy loam, over limestone, granitic and volcanic bedrock^[1]. The flowers exude a sweet smell^[1]. Two types of inflorescences can be found: purely staminate ones, regularly branched with long branches (each usually 5--7 cm long); and bisexual ones, hardly branched and with shorter branches (each 2--3 cm long)^[1]. The trees do not flower annually, and fruit set is rare in the Malayan population^[1].