The taxon planted is here described as A.dammara, Java provenance. The seed source is wayside
trees at Cibadak west of Sukabumi in west Java,of which a few were still alive in 1974. These wereplanted late last century with seed of Moluccan provenance,believed to come from Amboina. Several generations of trees have now been raised in Java. The possibility exists that there has been natural selection,and it is known also that in some seed stands trees
with markedly spiral grain have been culled. The Javan provenance is therefore a land race. It is locally
called A. loranthifolia.