The Red lauan, Cannonball tree or Sal tree or Sala tree [Couroupita guranensis] is known locally as រាំងភ្នំ (Raing Phnum), រាំងប្រសូត (Raing Prosot) ឬ សាលព្រឹក្ស (Sal Prek). It has beautiful flowers. They are very common planted in public areas, in Buddhist temple [pagoda] or you will see a lot in the Royal Palace or national museum. Locals believed that Buddha was born under this tree that’s why they called Raing Prosot [Buddha born-tree]. The Cannonball tree was named because its fruits are as big as artillery’s bullet in the ancient time and when it drops, it sounds so strong like the sound of shooting artillery.
Be noted that, the local names are called as រាំងភ្នំ Raing Phnum, same like other species រាំងភ្នំ Raing Phnum [Shorea siamensis, Pentacme siamensis] and Raing Phajek [Shorea obtusa]. The later ones are grown on the mountain only. Below are photos of the other species bear same local names I took during my trip to the mountain.
Below is រាំងទឹក Raing Teuk (រាំងអន្លក់) [edible plant], English name: Freshwater mangrove, Indian oak [Barringtonia acutangula]. They are known to grow in the river or in floating forest.
Hahaha, kind of funny to me too, the fact that they named it that way @TusharSuradkar have you ever seen its fruits? It is so big, bigger like your knee-ball. I don’t know where I kept the photos. Connect does teach me one thing: to be interested in anything around us. We never know one day we would need it. Like, I have several pieces of photos from the flowers and trees but when I really need it, I could only found few pieces
Its great to know about Raing Phnum. The photos are beautiful. It’s interesting to know about how its fruit sounds when it’s dropped. Thank you for sharing.
No, @Sophia_Cambodia Not yet but its really interesting to know about it. Also it’s great to know about Mangrove leaves having used as side vegetables.
It seems I have seen this tree though I am not sure about the name of it @Sophia_Cambodia . Thanks a lot for sharing this nice post with us. Stay safe.
Thank you @Lnvsagar glad you enjoyed the post. Well, here, they use mainly lotus flowers to offer to the Buddha, tuber rose and only few more but not common.
Thank you @MukulR hope you stay safe. Yes, I guess you have seen them. After all, it is belong to Indian subcontinent and that means they are grown in many countries around India.
![Raing Phnum [Shorea siamensis, Pentacme siamensis] ផ្ការាំងផ្ចឹកលើខ្នងភ្នំត្បែង និងព្រៃសហគមន៍សង្ឃរុក្ខាវ័ន្ត Inedible flowers, bloom in the month of January/February](https://d34vm3j4h7f97z.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/5/d5df150a71cde5847adcffc39d61e1299fba0621.jpeg)
