Medicine Tree Located In Takeo Province

On my recent trip to Takeo Province to see the topaz gem-stone mining there, I visited a modern Khmer Buddhist temple which also has an ancient, pre-Angkor era (Chenla) brick edifice.

To my surprise, along the margin of the lake that fronted the temple was a group of trees which included the medicine tree mentioned in the previous post, the tree whose only six examples I have ever seen, are found in the center of Phnom Penh.

Now I know that they exist elsewhere. This magnificent example has an intact bark and the monks I asked, not only did not know the name of the tree, they also did not know that the bark was used as a medicine!