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Fresh fruit bunches of the oil palm(Elaeis guineensis) |
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Oil palm fruit |
Both the oil palm tree and the Cempedak tree are chiefly tropical plants. The oil palm belongs to the Palmae family and though majority are tree-like there are others in the family that are climbing, a characteristic common in the rattan or 'Rotan' in Malay . The Cempedak is a species of woody plant and placed under the Fig family (
Moraceae). Members of the fig family that are planted for their fruits here are the Artocarpus - Cempedak (
Artocarpus integer), Jackfruit (
Artocarpus heterophyllus), Breadfruit (
Artocarpus altilis) and the Ong Lumok or Terap (
Artocarpus odiratissimus).
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Cempedak tree (Artocarpus integer) |
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