Wild elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus cumingii

fruit

Yellow to red drupes, sweet and good-tasting, eaten raw, on a large tree from the lowland forests of the Philippines and Sulawesi.

Origin

Philippines and Sulawesi

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

The ripe fruit is rinsed and eaten raw, spitting out the seeds or stone; the skin is left if it is tough.

Molecules

In small amounts, not counted Pectins · Insoluble fibers

Did you know?

Its white flowers hang in slender clusters about twelve centimetres long.