Download Product profile No 1:_Bong bark ,“Peuak Bong, Yang Bong”

Food: shoots, fruit, flowers
Medicine: stem
Dracaena angustifolia Willd.
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Family: DRACAENACEAE (AGAVACEAE)
Synonyms: D. ensifolia Wall., D. ferrea Lour
Other names: Local names: Khone kaen. other Lao. Thai: khon kaen, tau san, pak khon ma, praw
panlam, ikrim pa, wansaklek. Vietnamese: English: Trade
Remark: if relevant
Use: Leaf shoots, young fruits and flowers are
edible when boiled with a sweeter taste than that
of bamboo shoots. Locally the stem is also used
to boil an extract for a tea. Also roots and shoots
are used to treat ailments, such as cough,
stomach aches or diabetes.
Active ingredients:
Harvesting: The species is little sought after, but
rather harvested when encountered.
Yield, densities:
Access rules:
Sustainability: When shoots are collected the
plant reiterates again.
Conservation status: Many plants still exist.
Processing: Shoots are boiled in water.
Quality criteria:
Marketing: Shoots are sold in Savannakhet for
15,000 kip/kg, but in many other places they are
only consumed locally.
Market prospects:
Propagation: By cuttings or seed. Seedlings
need to be kept in moist environment, watered
well and in shade.
Description: Shrub to 2 m tall. Stem cylindrical,
solitary straight, but reiterates into more shoots
when cut. Leaves in clusters on the apex, blades
sessile, oblong-linear, 20-50 cm by 1-3 cm, acute
at apex. Terminal panicle to 40 cm long, flowers in
clusters of 1-3, 1 cm, light green to white (ca. 6
cm, flowering in March?). Soft roundish
fruits of 1-2 cm, green-white to yelloworange.
Distribution & Ecology: It grows near streams or shaded areas in evergreen and deciduous forest,
well distributed and found scattered. Found in Vientiane to Savannakhet province.
Literature: FGBEFP03, FRC, NPI24, TKEDC