Kuy Fruit

        Kuy Fruit 

        Kuy - willughbeia cochinchinensis

Kuy is a kind of plant, a vine that grows in the mountains and when the fruit is ripe, it has herbs. It is a delicious or sweet delicacy that most women like to eat, and it is ripe in the spring only in April and May every year. Other name Kui.

A wild fruit with a sweet, sour, yellow-orange in colour and can be found on some of the main national roads in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) after it was picked from Vines that cling to large trees in Cambodia's mountainous areas can sell for up to 45,000 riel (1 USD → 4,088 Cambodian riel) per kilogram. This wild fruit can be harvested only once a year, and this plants grows naturally in the mountains, a large vine that bears fruit from February to May.

It’s a kind of vine and called it the jungle fruits because they picked these fruits from the jungle and forest. Cambodians is called Kuy or Kui.  The name in English is Willughbeia cochinchinensis. The fruits having in bunches with the colour of green and yellow. The taste is mixing of sweet and sour which is good for ladies and those who like something sweet and sour fruits to eat with chilly salt. These are edible fruits available in some provinces with big jungle and forest like Siem Reap, Kampong Thom, Preah Vihear, Koh Kong, Pursat, Mondulkiri, ( Cambodia)..etc.

Willughbeia cochinchinensis is found in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Cambodians, in addition to consuming the fruit, also use the stem which goes into the composition of an alcoholic drink consumed by mothers after childbirth as an invigorating drink. The latex of the plant has a strong adhesive power. The Brou ethnic group, in the province of Ratanakiri, uses this latex to make a glue that is used to trap birds. The adhesive power of this latex is such that traditional Cambodian medicine also used it to make sutures.

These are the real natural mountain fruits of Cambodia.  Guaranteed not to use chemicals, like the fruits of the market people. This fruit is sold in abundance around Kampong Chhnang province, also available on National Road 4 Phnom Penh-Kampong Som. 

Other parts used: Vine, roots and resin. Medicinal use: Roots and vines treat diarrhea, dysentery, liver disease, hives, help women who have just given birth by boiling water or soaking in alcohol.  Its stem is also a traditional medicine for treating pregnant women with no milk.  Toothpaste treats tooth decay by adding a drop of latex to the tooth decay and treating the ball by applying it over the abscess.  Roots and vines use 15-30 grams to boil water.  Leaves: Leaves oblong, acuminate, apex dark green, broadly winged, lower green below. Flowers: Leaves white. Fruits: Round, but yellow to orange when ripe.  Grows spontaneously in dense forest and sparsely populated areas in mangrove forests.

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