So I was glad when the Musang King was good. It really is an impressive durian that way — pretty reliable. Maybe it’s because there’s so much more available, or maybe it’s some characteristic of the cultivar, but Musang King is very rarely a bad durian. This one was not bad. As we were leaving, I stepped away from the stall to get a photo.
D197. Clone No: D 197. Local Name: Raja Kunyit or Musang King or Mau Shan Wang or Cat Mountain King. Date Registered: 9.12.1993. Origin (Owner/Place): Wee Chong Beng, Tanah Merah, Kelantan. Remarks: Fruit shape is oval to ellipsoid and has a light green husk. It has a thick, golden yellow flesh, very smooth with little or no fibres.
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From Perak, it was the leading commercial durian clone in Malaysia in the 1980s and 1990s but is now surpassed by ‘Musang King’. Fruit weighs 1.4–1.6 kg and is round, brownish-green, with a short peduncle. The fruit is easily D101 (D168), ‘Durian opened.
On the contrary, previous studies on Malaysian durian reported that D24 and D101 mainly contain sulfur-containing volatiles, 4,13 while esters mainly predominated in D2. 4 Interestingly, a highly sought-after durian cultivar in Malaysia, D197 (Musang King), has an almost equal relative composition of ester and sulfur-containing volatiles.
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