page_title: Barringtonia asiatica
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Barringtonia asiatica / See also
caption_attribution_description: Seed of the Barringtonia asiatica (futu) on Tongatapu
context_page_description: Barringtonia asiatica is a species of Barringtonia native to mangrove habitats from islands of the Indian Ocean in the west to tropical Asia and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It is grown along streets for decorative and shade purposes in some parts of India, for instance in some towns on the southeastern shore. It is also known as Box Fruit due to the distinct box-shaped fruit it produces. The local name futu is the source of the name for the Polynesian island Futuna. The type specimen was collected by botanist Pehr Osbeck on a sandy beach area on the island of Java, later to be described by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753.
  It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 7–25 m tall. The leaves are narrow obovate, 20–40 cm in length and 10–20 cm in width. Fruit produced as mentioned earlier, is otherwise aptly known as the Box Fruit, due to distinct square like diagonals jutting out from the cross section of the fruit, given its semi spherical shape form from stem altering to a subpyramidal shape at its base. The fruit measures 9–11 cm in diameter, where a thick spongy fibrous layer covers the 4–5 cm diameter seed.
context_section_description: Places that may have been named after Barringtonia asiatica (putat)
  Putat, Brunei
  Putat, Cebu
  Putatan, Kota Kinabalu
  Putatan, Muntinlupa
  Putatan (federal constituency)
caption: Immature fruit (about fist size)
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