Canarium album

Canarium album
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Sapindales
Family:Burseraceae
Genus:Canarium
Species: C. album
Binomial name
Canarium album
(Lour.) DC.
Synonyms[1]

Canarium album Raeusch. [Invalid]
Canarium album Leenh.
Canarium tonkinense Engl.
Hearnia balansae C.DC.
Pimela alba Lour.

Canarium album[2] is a tree species in the genus Canarium and the family Burseraceae, found in Indo-China; the Catalogue of Life does not record any sub-species.[2]

Canarium album produces a fruit - sometimes called an "olive" or "white olive",[3] but no relation to Olea; it is consumed in Vietnam (Vietnamese: trám trắng, fruit quả trám), Thailand (where it is known as nam liap (Thai: หนำเลี้ยบ), samo chin (Thai: สมอจีน) or kana (Thai: กาน้า)) and in China (Simplified Chinese: 橄榄; Traditional Chinese: 橄欖; Pinyin" gǎn lǎn ).[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List (retrieved 14 December 2017)
  2. 1 2 Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2014). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  3. ↑ GRIN: Canarium album (retrieved 14 December 2017)
  4. ↑ Lars Ragvald, Wai-Ling Ragvald & Susanna Björverud, Norstedts Kinesisk-Svenska Ordbok (Stockholm: Norstedt, 2012).
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