In Saint Kitts and Nevis it is commonly known as "morroca," a corruption of Morroco, from where the plant was imported to St. Called "Kavika" in Fiji, it is well-documented as a medicinal plant (particularly the bark of the Kavika tree). In the Fiji Islands it is common in the outskirts of forests. In the Pacific Islands, this fruit is known as Mountain Apple. In Trinidad and Tobago it is known as pommerac, while in the Dominican Republic a small sub-species of the wax apple is known as cajuilito, or small cashew. On Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, the fruit is called kashu Sürnam in Papiamentu, which means ‘cashew from Surinam’, while in Surinam the fruit is called curaçaose appel (‘apple from Curaçao’ in Dutch). It is known as jamalac in French, and zamalac in the French-based creole languages of Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles and other Indian ocean islands. Eugenia javanica) is a species in the Myrtaceae, native to Philippines, India, Indonesia and Malaysia.Ĭommon names include wax apple, love apple, java apple, chomphu (in Thai), Mận (in Vietnam), Ohtahiti Apple (in Jamaica), water apple, mountain apple, jambu air ("water guava" in Malay), wax jambu, bell fruit, makopa, tambis (Philippines), and chambekka in Malayalam, jamrul (in Bengali), and jumbu (Sri Lanka). When mature, the tree is considered a heavy bearer. The flowers and resulting fruit are not limited to the axils of the leaves and can appear on nearly any point on the surface of the trunk and branches. The fruit is a bell-shaped edible berry, with colors ranging from white, pale green, green, red, purple, crimson, to deep purple or even black, 4–6 cm long in wild plants. The flowers are white, 2.5 cm diameter, with four petals and numerous stamens. It is a tropical tree growing to 12 m tall, with evergreen leaves 10–25 cm long and 5–10 cm broad. The rose apple tree is used more for its fuel than for its fruit. Rose apples in no way resemble roses or apples.
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