Baccaurea angulata, also known as belimbing hutan or belimbing darah in Malay and more locally as ucong or embaling, is a species of flowering plant, a fruit tree in the tampoi family, that is native to Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia.
[1] The species grows as a dioecious tree to 6–21 m in height, with a 2–5 m bole.
The inflorescences of cream to yellow flowers are clustered along the bole and branches.
The fruits are berries and have a pointy pentagon shape to it unlike any other baccaurea fruit, 5–6 cm long by 2.3–2.6 cm in diameter, have a star-shaped cross-section, and are dark purple when immature, ripening bright red, has a hard but easy-to-open shell, with the seeds contained in an edible, white arillode.
It occurs in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp, riverine and secondary forests, up to an elevation of 800 m.[1] The species is often cultivated in villages as well as the fruits being collected from the wild and sold in markets.