Medicinally this odd looking fruit is said to cure everything from stonefish wounds to digestive upsets to far more serious disease. A decoction from the bark, leaves, roots and fruit can be drunk. When ripe or overripe the skin of the fruit becomes almost translucent and the flesh turns soft to develop an unpleasant odour. The odour has led to nickname of the 'starvation fruit' due to the fact that you would have to be starving to eat it as a fresh fruit.
140mm | $14.90 AU | Seeking Propagation Material | 
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 6 | Low | No | Evergreen | June - August |
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Once you get your head around the smell (blue vein cheese in tom cat's pee) the flavour is really not too bad at all, though it's definitely an acquired taste. The tree does not do too well away from the tropics. | David White - Newcastle, NSW 03-Jun-2006
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