Wood apple is native to dry areas of India. It is cultivated in parts of South Asia .
Wood apple is a slow growing tree that grows best in wet climates that also have a dry season. It is generally grown from seeds. Multiplication may also be by root cuttings, air-layers, or by budding.
Wood apple is a deciduous, slow-growing, erect tree with a few upward-reaching branches bending outward near the summit where they are subdivided into slender branch lets drooping at the tips. Fruit round to oval, 5-12.5 cm wide, with a hard, woody, grayish-white, scurfy rind about 6 mm thick, pulp brown, mealy, odorous, resinous, astringent, acid or sweetish, with numerous small, white seeds scattered through it.
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