Makha Tree (Afzelia xylocarpa)

Family: Fabaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Afzelia xylocarpa - Makha Tree or Cambodia Beng Tree – is a large tropical deciduous tree that can grow to 30m. In very large specimens the trunk to grow to 2m in diameter. The tree has an attractive timber used for ornamental woodturning, pens, knife handles, carvings, and musical instruments. The seed and oil are edible and is medicinally for eye disease and toothaches relief. Cigarettes are made from the seed pulp.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds, Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Edible Part: Leaves, Seeds, Oil. The fatty cotyledons of young seeds are eaten. An oil is obtained from the seeds. — Edible Part: Leaves, Seeds, Oil.; The fatty cotyledons of young seeds are eaten.; An oil is obtained from the seeds.

Habitat & North American Range

Dense forest, and in transitional areas between evergreen and dry open dipterocarp forest. Found in mixed deciduous or dry evergreen forest on clayey or laterite soils at elevations from 100 - 600 metres. (Zone 10)