Taxon: Durio zibethinus L.

• Linnaeus is author of the new names in Syst. veg. ed. 13
• Murray was simply editor, fide TL-2 3:110, 670. 1981

Common names:

• durião   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• durión   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• durian   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Durianbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Stinkfrucht   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Agroforestry 6:12. 1994; Pl Res SEAs 2:157. 1991)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia - Kalimantan [possibly native], Sumatra [possibly native]; Malaysia
• ALSO
  Asia [tropical]

References:

• Agroforest. Today 6:12.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp) [= D. zibethinus Murray].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 2:157.
• Whitmore, T. C. et al., eds. 1989. Tree flora of Indonesia, Check list for Kalimantan. (Trees Kalim)
• Whitmore, T. C. et al., eds. 1989. Tree flora of Indonesia, Check list for Sulawesi. (Trees Sulaw)
• Wyatt-Smith. 1953. Kew Bull. 8:530.
• Yaacob, O. & S. Subhadrabandhu. 1995. The production of economic fruits in South-East Asia. (PrEcFr)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Durio zibethinus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Durio zibethinus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Durio zibethinus L.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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