{"product_id":"lakoocha-artocarpus-lacucha","title":"Lakoocha (Artocarpus lacucha)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLakoocha, Lacucha or Monkey Jack, is a unique tropical fruit tree (deciduous outside of the tropics) native to India’s humid regions. It is a rare Artocarpus related to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sowexotic.com\/search?type=product\u0026amp;q=jackfruit\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJackfruit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and the trees are traditionally used for their fruit and to make furniture and timber.  The orange fruit has a sweet, tangy, citrusy flavor and a Jackfruit-like texture. In Lakoocha's native enthronement, you’d find it growing wild by streams or lowland areas in India where locals of the Kalasin Privince chew the high-tannin wood, occasionally with Betel Nut, and use the wood to create instruments called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003epong langs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, similar to xylophones. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLakoocha's flower spikes are pickled into chutneys. The green-to-yellow, knobbly skinned fruit bears a sweet, tangy, semi-acidic flavor which carries culinary and medicinal value and is commonly eaten out of hand in late summer, believed to be a tonic for the liver. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNot only does the Lakoocha bear delicious fruit, it is an important source of firewood and termite resistant timber in Nepal which can be equally useful for your own hardwood projects if extra limbs need removing! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/anthrome.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/05\/unidentified-fruit-orange-bumpy\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhoto\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sow Exotic","offers":[{"title":"Large Peat Pot","offer_id":48700444344563,"sku":"LAK-L","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0311\/8094\/7593\/files\/sow-exotic-tropical-fruit-tree-large-peat-pot-lakoocha-artocarpus-lacucha-37951589482739.png?v=1776021210","url":"https:\/\/practicalmagicstore.com\/products\/lakoocha-artocarpus-lacucha","provider":"Practical Magic Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}