Dialium indum

Dialium indum
Fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Dialium
Species:
D. indum
Binomial name
Dialium indum
Varieties
  • Dialium indum var. bursa (de Wit) Rojo ex Kessler & Sidiyasa
  • Dialium indum var. indum

Dialium indum, the tamarind-plum or velvet tamarind, is a tall, tropical, fruit-bearing tree. It belongs to the family Fabaceae, and has small, typically grape-sized edible fruits with brown hard inedible shells. No reports of cultivation exist, information on propagation is limited.