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Local Fruit Needed


Peters

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Hi,

I need several thousand of the attached fruit of the right size. You can not eat the fruit but most thais know this fruit.In Thai it's called ตีนเป็ดน้ำ . Maybe a nice earner for a local village.

Thanks,

Peters

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this is my first time to see this fruit , so it makes me really curious what is it ( from foto i thought it is 'ma gok'มะกอก ) so i google for ตีนเป็ดน้ำ Cerbera odollam Gaertner and it's fruit

about 'teen ped num'(ตีนเป็ดน้ำ) fruit , it can use like herb , for induced vomit, and luxative .. but it's really harmful (dead), if eat it too much

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Hi Bambina,

The fruit is indeed poisonous. Local villagers use it as poison against rats, etc..

I need 50,000+ of them. If you dry them you get the below product, probably you know that one.

On this moment I only have 5,000.

Because the fruits are not edible, there are no growers/nurseries on a large scale. Probably I have to set up collection points across Thailand.

Peters

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