[An-lang] Biid

[David Mead]

Hi Tom,

A few more details wound be helpful. Where does the tree grow? Is the 
fruit edible?

There is a tree called sea mango, also pink-eyed pong pong, Cerbera 
manghas L. with a mango-like fruit. In our area (Buton Island) it is 
called kapoo-poo, reduplication of the stem poo 'mango'. Even the 
specific epithet manghas refers to mangos. The Tagalog name is 
baraibai. Some other local names in the Philippines are listed here: 
http://www.stuartxchange.com/Baraibai.html

David

At 4/7/2017 03:13 PM -0700, Tom Payne wrote:
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>Greetings. In Kagayanen, a language of the Central Philippines, 
>there is a tree and fruit called 'biid'. All I know is that "It is a 
>big tree with fruit like manggo." Does anyone know this species? 
>Does it have a Latin and/or English name? Thanks for any help.
>Tom Payne
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