The fruit, called jentik, is edible, if sour, and is locally harvested and sold.

Baccaurea polyneura grows to a mid-canopy of primary, secondary and swamp rain forests at elevations from 20 to 600 meters.

[4] When unripe, the fruit takes an evergreen color with its dioecious tree growing up to 11-32 meters in height.

Baccaurea polyneura grows in the wild on sand, clay, loam and granite soils.

As a dioecious plant, it requires both a male and female counterpart to be grown to cultivate fruit and seed.