Rambutan
Fast facts
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Genus
- Nephelium
- Species
- lappaceum
Scientific name
- Scientific name
- Nephelium lappaceum
How to say it in other languages
- French
- Ramboutan
Facts from Wikipedia’s “Rambutan” page and Wikispecies (CC BY-SA 4.0).
A rambutan or ramboostan (Nephelium lappaceum) is a tree from Southeast Asia. The fruit that grows on the tree is also called rambutan. It is in the same family as lychee.
The name rambutan is a word that means “hairy”. The fruit does look hairy. The fruit is green in color when not yet ripe. Once ripe the outside of the fruit turns red. The flesh on the inside of the rambutan is white in color.
Rambutan is native to the Malay Peninsula and nearby areas in Southeast Asia. Rambutan trees grow naturally in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Rambutan is also popular in Sri Lanka.
The fruit is usually sold fresh, used in making jams and jellies, or canned.
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