Matoa Fruit, Fruit of Paradise Earth

Natural (Fruit Matoa)

Fruit Matoa (Pometia pinnata) is a typical fruit of indigenous Papuans. Taste the fruit is sweet, like fruit or fruit rambuatan kelengkeng. Matoa trees grow tall, and its wood can be used for furniture or frames - the frame house. This fruit is a seasonal fruit which bear fruit in September-October. Matoa grow throughout the islands of Paradise.


Natural (Fruit Matoa)

Pain men "crowded", and hard to define, like the taste of fruit lychee and rambutan fruit. There is also a very sweet taste like fruit kelengkeng. Some say sweet legit. Anyone else feel like the aroma of fruit and durian kelengkeng. In short, matoa fruit taste delicious, they said that like.

Melonjong globular fruit the size of quail eggs or areca nut (Palm family) with 1.5 to 5 cm long and 1-3 cm in diameter, smooth skin is brown-black when ripe (if still young yellow-green, there is also a mention of green- yellowish). White epidermis of nodes attached to the seed, sweet and fragrant.

So far, people familiar with the fruit comes from Papua matoa, when in fact matoa trees grow well in Maluku, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and Java at the height of up to about 1,400 meters above sea level. Besides Indonesia matoa tree also grows in Malaysia, of course, also in Papua New Guinea (eastern parts of Papua), and in tropical Australia.

In Papua, matoa tree actually grows wild in the forests. This is a kind of plant rambutan, or in the biological sciences is called comes from a family-rambutanan rambutan (Sapindaceae). While its kind in Latin called Pometia pinnata.

Natural (Fruit Matoa)

In Papua New Guinea, known as the fruit matoa Taun. While in other areas, it is called too many things, among others: ganggo, jagir, jampania, shampoo, kase, kungkil, lamusi, lanteneng, lengsar, mutoa, Pakam, sapen, seize, Tawang and wusel. That is, the fruit is actually also found in other areas in Indonesia.

In Papua, which was originally matoa tree grows wild ride is now becoming more prestige. Especially since the (former) President Megawati launched the planting of various tree species native to Indonesia such as Aceh chrysolite, meranti matoa Kalimantan and Papua as sustainable tree, in the Bung Karno Jakarta, a few years ago.

So, understandably if generally people of Papua will be proud to call the fruit as the fruit of his trademark matoa Papua province. This tree is flowering throughout the year.