Origin and distribution

Rambutan are indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia. The initial record of rambutan trees reveal that they were grown by the Malayan jungle people about their short term settlements, an exercise followed to date. Rambutan trees are today discovered expanding naturally in Southern China, the Indochina region as well as Southeast Asia. With ever increasing popularity among non Asians and growing interest in rambutan globally, the fruit is at present regarded as an essential agricultural produce.