Accession Data:
Tamarindus indica L.
- Common Name: Tamarind
- Family: Fabaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: tropical Africa
- Habitat: Perennial tree
- Description: A large, storm, drought-resistant tree, possibly native to western Madagascar. A Moderate growing legume popular in many tropical and subtropical areas as an ornamental and as a fruit producer. The fruit is a velvety, brownish red pod (2-8") with a brittle shell covering a thick, deep-brown sticky pulp with a few seeds embedded. It has a high sugar and acid content. The pulp is used to make a drink, is eaten fresh and is an ingredient of Worcestershire sauce. Flowers are edible; the seeds are generally boiled or fried. Propagated by seed, airlayer or grafting.
[Thai: ma kham; Vietnamese: me chua, pulp = me]
- USDA Zone: 9b-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199400020
- Source: Tom Mione - CCSU
- Accession Date: 06-06-1994
- Bench: 1104 - AFR:North Bench W
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 03-24-2025
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Fabales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Fabaceae
- SubFamily: Caesalpinioideae
- Tribe: Detarieae
- SubTribe:
Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- Medicinal Plants
- Edible Plants
- Plants with Edible Fruits
- Spice Plants
- Type Species
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Cape Verde / Benin / Burkina / Ghana / Guinea-Bissau / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Mali / Nigeria / Niger / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo / Burundi / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Zaire / Chad / Ethiopia / Somalia / Sudan / Socotra / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Madagascar / Yemen
References (external):
- California Rare Fruit Growers WWW Site
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
- Tamarindus indica at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
- Tamarind at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Tauʻolunga (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
data regenerated on Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:57:04 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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W/C = Wild Collected
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