Kawista Fruit

Kawista Fruit

Plant a tree "Kawista". 've Rarely heard, but perhaps most people would never forget the taste of the fruit of the tree. Kawista shaped small tree trunk diameter is not too large and up to 12 m, much branched and the slender-sleek, sharp barbed and straight, up to 4 cm in length. Sometimes there is also what makes this plant as a bonsai. Compound leaves measuring up to 12 cm long, with the odd rakis finned and winged narrow stalk; son leaves opposite, 2-3 pairs, the child leaves the breech end of the egg-shaped round, up to 4 cm in length, have oil glands, and if it leaves crushed, issued little scent.

Male flowers and perfect flowers of five, are white, green or violet-red, usually clustered,, located at the end of the branch or in between the leaves. The fruit of type such as fruit Buni but big, crusty, with diameter up to 10 cm; surface scaly skin, regardless-off, greenish white, fragrant flesh contains many seeds are slimy. Seeds 5-6 mm sized, fluffy, thick dashed and green beans; epigeal germination. Anakannya stem slender, slightly toothed (zigzag); 1-4 leaf-shaped leaves of the first single.



Kawista tree actually like most other plants, the leafy, flowering, and fruiting in the same year. In Southeast Asia, Kawista autumn leaves in January. The flowers grow at the beginning of February or March, and fruits mature in October or November. The tree is slow growing and would not bear fruit until the age of 15 years or more. Content of the fruit flesh Kawista approximately one-third of the whole fruit.

Kawista, as well as maja and the types of Feronella Swingle, able to live on a tropical monsoon climate or dry at any time. This plant can grow to a height of 450 m above sea level, In the western Himalayas, which in its original place. In Malaysia and Indonesia, Kawista tree cultivated especially in coastal areas. Apparently this type of drought tolerant and can adapt well in light soil.

Fresh fruit pectin content is 3-5 % . Each 100 g portion of meat edible fruit containing : 74 g of water, 8 g protein, 1.5 g fat, 7.5 g carbohydrates, 5 g ash.
In 100 g edible seeds parts, contained : 4 g water, 26 g protein, 27 g fat , 5 g carbohydrates 3, and 5 g of ash. Meat dried fruit containing 15 % citric acid and a small amount of acids potassium, calcium, and iron. 

The Benefits of  Kawista Fruit
Kawista fruit is ripe, it also has benefits for the community :

1.  To reduce the heat
2.   Used as an upset stomach .

    In Indo - China, thorns and bark Kawista found in a variety of traditional medicine to treat excessive menstruation, liver disorders, animal bites and stings, and to treat nausea. Kawista wood used for building houses, furniture and agricultural poles. The sap is collected from the bark is reported to have medicinal benefits, and is used as a substitute for gum arabic.

How to eat this Kawista fruit  is a ripe fruit pulp mixed with sugar, then eaten with the seeds or the seeds discarded, or too processed to be a kind of 'treacle'. In Sri Lanka, the fruit is processed into cream. Kawista cream is produced from the fruit. In India too, the fruit Kawista used in a way that together with their close relatives, namely maja (Aegle Marmelos (L.) Correa), but it can not replace the maja.

Prospects Kawista apparently will remain a resource that is not utilized in Southeast Asia, except in Sri Lanka's status as a commodity export. Kawista trees can only be found in the yard in these areas drier in Southeast Asia (in Bali also exist), and the fruit is not widely used. It seems just a little interest in the fruit of this one.

If you want to try to grow it, can be a way propagated by seed, root cuttings and grafting. Kawista seeds germinate 2-3 weeks in the nursery; seeds that have been stored for several weeks, could reach 80% germination. His buds of twigs can be placed on the seedlings, and reportedly produce dwarf trees that can bear fruit.

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