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The species is a native of the dense evergreen forests of the Western Ghats in South West India, now widely cultivated pantropically. The major producing countries are India, Indonesia, Sarawak, Malaysia and Brazil. It is also cultivated also in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, New Guinea, on many Pacific islands, the Antilles, Madagascar, Zanzibar and in West Africa (Ghana to Angola).

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