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Rob starts with ...
My Nan has a tree in her backyard and we don't know what it is.
Is it a fruit of some sort?
If some body can help us, it would be great.
Thank you
Rob
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Time: 9th February 2011 9:38pm

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Xiem says...
Rose Apple I think. Nice taste. They grow lots in SE Asia.

Time: 9th February 2011 9:56pm

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Tom says...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygium_samarangense

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/waxjambu.htm

Check out those links, Rob, and see if it resembles your photos. We call them Wax Apple or Wax Jambu over on this side of the planet because we call Syzygium jambos Rose Apple. Looks like Daley's lists them similarly to what we call them.

Time: 10th February 2011 10:30am

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BJ says...
Syzygium malaccense. Jambu is more bell shaped.

Time: 10th February 2011 11:00am

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speedy says...
Yeah that's S.malaccense ,one of the 'jambu' fruit species.
Jambu bol, Jambu besar

It's the one that's been known in NNSW as big lau lau or lau lau which is the PNG name for it.

I believe John Vanderbyl (Vanderbyl's nursery -Main Arm) may have brought the
seed in from PNG many years ago (before restrictions on Myrtaceae importation)...
...and the name with it.

It's much softer than the Wax Jambus (S.samarangense).
and doesn't have the rose scent that the rose apple (S.jambos) has.



Time: 11th February 2011 12:41pm

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fruitist says...
The attached photo shows the green variety of Wax Apple or Water Apple. There is so much confusion on the internet with the images between the three.
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Time: 11th February 2011 3:13pm

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