Drupe, brownish, globose to broad-ovoid, 15–20 cm across, roughish fruit
Flesh colors
Bright deep yellowish flesh
Taste
Taste sweet if the fruits falls to the ground but taste sour when it is unripe
Mangifera pajang or bambangan is actually a fruit found only in Borneo, which includes the Brunei sultanate, Kalimantan province of Indonesia, and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. The fruit is known in Borneo with its native name, Bambangan. It is a species of plant in the Anacardiacea family. Some of the popular common names of the fruit are Bambangan, Pajang, Membangan and Wild Mango. This fruit is used locally as food, the kernel sometimes being used to make pickle.
Plant Description
Bambangan is a tall, perennial, deciduous medium sized tree, 15–50 m high with huge, inaccessible columnar straight trunk with branches raised high above the ground and a bole of 30–70 cm with grey or sometimes dark brown, smooth or broadly fissured bark and an umbrella-shaped canopy high up the tree. The plant is found growing wild in the forests where the tropical agro climatic regime is humid and shaded. For instance in the lowland dipterocarp forest and in forest on well-drained alluvial soils. Areas with heavy rainfall and strong wind are not suited as conditions are detrimental to flower induction and fruit set. It can withstand prolong dry weather and flooding and can be grown on a wide range of soils including upland soils. It thrives best on, well-drained alluvial clay to sandy loam with pH ranging from 5 to 7. It cannot tolerate acid peat swamps or the leached coastal sandy beaches.
Leaves
Mature leaves are rigidly coriaceous, elliptic oblong or occasionally obovate-oblong, 17.5– 45 cm long by 7–15 cm wide, cuneate to attenuated base, acute to mucronate apex, entire margin, with 14–30 pairs of prominent nerves, usually dark green in color and borne on petioles up to 12 cm long. Young flushes are bronze to pink in color. Panicles are terminal and also in upper leaf axils, pyramidal, to 30 cm long with lateral branches up to 1 cm long and densely flowered.
Flower & Fruit
Inflorescence is a terminal and sub terminal panicle, erect, pyramidal, up to 30 cm long, densely flowered, glabrous, fragrant. Flowers are 5-merous, petals up to 9 mm long, outside pinkish-white, inside purple, becoming yellowish after anthesis, with 3 ridges confluent at base, disk stipe-like, one or two stamens fertile, staminodes smaller and unequal, filaments connate at base; ovary white. Fruit is drupe, brownish, globose to broad-ovoid, 15–20 cm across, roughish fruit that have thick rind about 5–10 mm thick and is peeled like a banana. Inside the thick skin is a bright deep yellowish flesh that is fibrous, sweet-acid, pleasantly aromatic. The fruit weight about 2-3 kg. The fruit consists of single stone plump that is 9 cm × 6.5 cm × 4.5 cm, endocarp is woody, up to 5 mm thick, and seed is mono embryonic.
History
The plant is native to Borneo – Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei, and Kalimantan. The species is found mostly wild in the forests or in scattered backyard plantings in villages. Areas of wild distribution are found mostly around Kapit, Ulu Dapoi, Long Silat in Sarawak; Sipitang, Sandakan, Beaufort in Sabah; Sangkulirang and west Kutei in Kalimantan. Nowadays it can be found in several parts of the world due to its amazing features.
Prepare mackerel by washing it well, removing the bone and skin with a sharp knife, and then cutting it into small pieces.
Transfer the fish into a bowl and add the lime juice, bambangan fruit, chilies, ginger shallot, pickled papaya, salt, sugar and palm oil, mixing all together. Let it stand for 5 minutes and serve.
