Curculigo latifolia, also known as tambaka, lamba and lemba babi, is a species of flowering plant, a stemless perennial herb in the Hypoxidaceae family, that is native to Southeast Asia and produces edible fruits.
[2] The plant grows as a clump of 7–10 erect leaves, up to 1 m high in open areas and 2 m in forest shade.
The fruits are oval berries, 2–3 cm by 1.2–1.7 cm in diameter, ripening white tinged pink, enclosing small black seeds in edible white pulp, with a taste similar to that of dragon fruit.
[2] Curculigo latifolia ranges from Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Guangdong in southern China through Indochina and central and western Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and the Philippines).
[1] It grows in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp, lower montane, and heath forests, as well as in secondary forest and areas of disturbed vegetation where it is common around villages.