Stelechocarpus burahol, commonly known as kepel, is a plant in the custard apple family Annonaceae, native to the humid evergreen forests of Malesia,[1] and known for its edible fruit.
[3] Stelechocarpus burahol is a tree growing up to about 25 m (82 ft) tall with a trunk reaching 40 cm (16 in) diameter.
This species is monoecious, meaning that distinct female and male flowers are borne on the same plants.
[4][5][6] This tree was first described as Uvaria burahol by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Blume in 1825, however the British botanists Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson transferred it to their newly created genus Stelechocarpus in 1855, published in their work Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India.
It can be found at Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat (the Royal Palace of Yogyakarta), Taman Mini Indonesia Indah theme park in Jakarta, Taman Kiai Langgeng Magelang (a 28 Ha park in the city of Magelang where rare species are studied) and Bogor Botanical Gardens.