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'''Fruit''': The fruits are 1 - 2 inches wide, almost round or a little longer than wide. When ripe they may be greenish or dull-yellow flushed with pink. The skin is smooth and thin, and the firm flesh yellowish, sweet and rose scente. The texture is crisp, almost crunchy when the fruit is ripe and freshly picked. They contains one to four medium hard, round seeds, which rattle around inside the fruit. The seed as well as the roots are regarded as poisonous. Seedless, thick-fleshed fruits have been experimentally produced by treating opened flowers with growth regulators such as naphthoxy acetic acid.
'''Fruit''': The fruits are 1 - 2 inches wide, almost round or a little longer than wide. When ripe they may be greenish or dull-yellow flushed with pink. The skin is smooth and thin, and the firm flesh yellowish, sweet and rose scente. The texture is crisp, almost crunchy when the fruit is ripe and freshly picked. They contains one to four medium hard, round seeds, which rattle around inside the fruit. The seed as well as the roots are regarded as poisonous. Seedless, thick-fleshed fruits have been experimentally produced by treating opened flowers with growth regulators such as naphthoxy acetic acid.
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Eugenia Jambos, Linn. (Jambosa vulgaris, DC. Jambosa Jambos, Millsp.). Rose-apple. Jamrosade. Jambos. Fig. 1433. Tree, 20-;30 ft., glabrous: Lvs. lanceolate, very acuminate, 5-8 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, thick and shining: fls. greenish white: fr. pyriform, 1½-2 in. thick, white or yellowish, tinged with rose-color, edible but rather insipid, fragrant. E. Indies.—Hardy in Calif. as far north as San Francisco. Grown for its rich foliage and showy fls. Frs. much used in the tropics for jelly-making and in confectionery.
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==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==