Wild Fruits: Mobola plums

There are many edible wild fruit and berries growing around on the hill although I noticed an interesting phenomenon: the rains came late this year but it has rained fairly well and the trees have barely borne fruit but the bushes and ground fruit are plentiful this year, yet I didn't see any ground fruit last year, when it didn't rain much and yet the trees were full of fruit. It's sad to me that the previous inhabitants of the area such as monkeys, baboons and porcupines aren't around to eat it any more although monkeys are a real nuisance and baboons downright dangerous. Ground fruits like these would especially be eaten by porcupines.

mobola plum

My neighbour always looks at me in horror when I indulge my love of eating wild fruit I find growing on the hill. He always says "but I'm sure it's full of worms!" and I say, so what! I got him to try the plums but the verdict was "too weird". To me, it tastes unlike any other fruit I've ever eaten but the closest I can come to describing it would be like a fruit salad of yellow apple like Golden Delicious, banana and mango. When you eat them when they are bright orange, they are also slightly fermented and you get a warm glow in the pit of your stomach, similar to the sensation of drinking ginger beer. If you eat them when they are grey, they aren't fully ripe and they have a cream of tartar aftertaste but when they are yellowish, they are perfect. I'm going to scatter more seed closer to the house and see if anything germinates.