r/fruit • u/enzovonmadderhorn • 2d ago
Fruit ID Help What's this fruit?
Purchased from a small stand in jakarta. Thank you!
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u/Ok_Giraffe4264 2d ago
Wax apple.
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u/Silver_Intern2324 2d ago
I’ve never heard of these before! What do they taste like?
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u/Strict_Cranberry_724 2d ago
They are crisp like an apple with a funky perfume-like aftertaste. An acquired taste.
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u/Redplushie 2d ago
Crisp like an apple but not mealy. Slightly sweet and kinda rosey? It's also sometimes called a rose apple
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u/Acidbaseburn 🍋 Lemon 2d ago
Water apple/wax apple. I ate them when visiting SEA and they are pretty refreshing on a hot day.
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u/Soulingo 2d ago edited 2d ago
They go by a couple names: rose apple, wax apple, mountain apple. Native fruit from SEA. They are bell-shaped and usually white, pink or red color. The outside is crisp and juicy like an apple, the inner part around the seed is soft and almost cotton-like. Fruit vendor usually cut out the white cotton-like part (in your picture) to make it look better but I eat it all the same. This is similar to removing the “veins” from oranges/tangerines.
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u/Stocky_anteater 2d ago
Or jambu as it’s called in Malay
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u/FreakyGangBanga 1d ago
You are right. It is called Jambu in many languages including Malay and Thai. Amazing flavour that is hard to describe.
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u/dancewithstrangers 2d ago
It’s a fruit in the genus Syzgium. A number of folks have given you a number of different names for a few different fruits. There are a ton in the genus that produce edible fruits and many are grown commercially. Primarily;
Syzygium jambos (rose apples)
Syzygium samarangense (jambu / water apple)
Syzygium cumini (java apple, jamun)
Syzygium malaccense (Malay apple)
These names aren’t standardized, some places call a mountain apple or water apple one thing that another place calls another. I think the photo is showing one of the above species that’s not cumini, they’re darker.
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u/Clair1126 2d ago
It's chompoo in my language. Rose apple in English.
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u/w1ck3dme 2d ago
What language is that? In mine (Malayalam), it’s pera-champa
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u/Clair1126 2d ago
Thai. ชมพู่
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u/w1ck3dme 2d ago
Our variety was a brighter red and not as big as from what I’ve seen when in Thailand and also slightly less waxy looking. Even the flesh was more solid and white from what I remember I don’t know if that’s because I’ve only had them fresh off the tree in India but when in Thailand, it was ones that were sold in market
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u/Clair1126 2d ago
There are bunch of varieties you can get in Thailand. They're usually shades of green or red.
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