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Handri starts with ...
I visited Sydney last week and saw a peculiar looking fruit tree in the Darling Harbor park.
The fruit was eaten by the bird in the park and the fruits look and smell like wax jambu. does anyone here know what these trees are?
Thanks
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10th April 2013 8:58pm
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jakfruit etiquette says...
Wax Jambu is a Syzygium, and your photo is a lillypilly, S.paniculatum, an Australian
Syzygium. Should be common in Melbourne, just look for the edible purple fruits.
S.australe is also similar, and the Riberry, S.luehhmanii, has very nice fruit like tiny malay apple.
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sder says...
Lillipilly usually refers to Acmenia smithii, a different plant. The Syzygiums are commonly called 'bush cherry"
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rowan says...
Always heard all Syzygiums referred to as Lilly Pilly. I have never heard them called bush cherry.
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Jason says...
We only call one of them Lilly Pilly around here, the others have different names for sure.
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amanda says...
I bought one of these recently (S.jambos) or Rose apple - anyone like to comment on the taste of the fruit etc?
Is it "possum food"...?? :D


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12th April 2013 6:05pm
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JUJUBE FOR SALE IN MELBOURNE says...
Hi Amanda,

I love it. A ripe fruit smells like rose seriously and taste sweeter but drier than wax jambu. Bats love them too.
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Mike says...
Rose apples are a common street tree in Cairns with numerous specimens decades old.The bats do appreciate them.
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Kim says...
I think they taste like a mouthful of soap! My parents has a tree which I think looks lovely, but I can't stand the taste of the fruit... My now ex Sister-in-law adores it though... Prob one of her favorite fruit!
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jakfruit etiquette says...
Fruit are big, golf ball size or plus, but fairly hollow with a marble sized seed in the cavity. Fruit is pleasent, rosewater scented, ie turkish delight type perfume.
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amanda says...
Thanks guys :) sounds better than I was expecting...might be useful as I don't grow roses!
Hard to get alot of these plants now - due the myrtle rust and quarantine ban...just want to help keep them going here..
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