Kababchini

Description

This species is native to Indonesia, cultivated in India, England and West Indies. Kababchini is woody, climbing, perennial with dioeceous flowers in spike, cultivated to a small extent in India, specially in the Assam and Karnataka state, fruits collected when mature but still unripe and carefully dried. Fruit wrinkled, rounded, 5-7 mm in diameter, light brown to dark brown, about 7 mm long stalk attached, pericarp red to slightly brown, testa fused with pericarp, fruit hard and stony albumen white and oily, odour, aromatic end characteristic, taste, pungent and slightly bitter.