Durian grows on trees. It is a giant tropical evergreen tree with plants reaching up to about 25 meters tall. It usually fruits once a year, with the fruit ripening between August and December. The fruits are ovoid, oval or nearly to spherical, and one weighs about 3-5 KG. The fruit is green at first, and when fully ripe, it is tawny, with spikes protruding from the surface of the skin, and the flesh is creamy white. A durian tree produces about 80 per year.

Durian is mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, its origin in Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia, and then imported into the Philippines and other countries in large quantities of planting, and is now mostly produced in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, other like Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Florida, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian Islands, Madagascar, northern Australia and Singapore are also grown in these areas.

Durian is a purely tropical crop, durian climatological characteristics of the growing location of the average daily temperature of 22 ℃ or more. Frost-free areas can be planted, and parts of China's Hainan and Yunnan Provinces can be developed. Because the durian to year-round high temperature climate in order to grow fruitful, even in the equatorial region, the altitude of 600m above sea level in the highlands, due to the drop in temperature, can not be planted durian or can not bear fruit.

Durian is ovoid spherical, generally weighing about two kilograms, the outside is wood-like hard shell, inside the fractional room, each room has three, four such as egg yolk-sized seeds, *** there are ten to fifteen, outside the seeds wrapped in a layer of ointment is the pulp, for the creamy yellow. The flavor is sweet and fragrant. From the epidermis can recognize the advantages and disadvantages of durian, where the cone-shaped thorns thick and sparse, generally well developed, more fruit, thick and delicate flesh; such as the thorns pointed thin and dense, the fruit, thin flesh and thick flesh.