I Finally Discovered The Real Name Of My African Apple

About a week ago I discovered that the “African Apple” I planted three and half years ago has started fruiting. I wanted to know how it looks like because I had totally forgotten what it looked like since I last ate it as a little kid and my cousin only gave me the seed to plant which meant that I didn’t really know how it looked like.

In my post I put a bounty on it so that the person that gets the answer gets a large share of the bounty pay off which was 2 Steem.

@akomoajong said in his comment that it is called "Number 2 Apple" in his hometown in Cameroon, his description matches a lot with what my cousin had described

@wakeupkitty commented:

There are apps that can tell you the name if you make a picture of the leaves and flowers.

I had done a search on the normal Google search but didn’t come up with anything useful, but this time I used Google image and sure enough I got what I was looking for.

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Apparently, it is called Rose Apple (Syzyygium jambos Alston), why they have to add second names that tend to cause your tongue confusion I do not know, so I’ll stick with just Rose Apple.

Like many other fruits to which the word "apple" has been attached, the rose apple in no way resembles an apple, neither in the tree nor in its fruit. It is a member of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is technically known as Syzygium jambos Alston (syn. Eugenia jambos L.; Jambosa jambos Millsp.; Jambosa vulgaris DC.; Caryophyllus jambos Stokes).

The term "rose apple" (in French, pomme rose, pommier rose; in Spanish, poma rosa, pomarrosa, manzana rosa, or manzanita de rosa) is so widely employed that the species has few alternate names apart from those in the many local dialects of Africa, India, Malaya, southeastern Asia, the East Indies and Oceania. It is sometimes called jambosier by French-speaking people, plum rose or malabar plum in the English-speaking West Indies, pommeroos or appelroos in Surinam, and jambeiro or jambo amarelo in Brazil; jaman in India, and yambo in the Philippines.

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Rose Apple

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Thanks to everyone that tried to answer the question, Rose Apple sure has some wonderful flowers. I’ll sure do a post when the fruits are ripe enough for harvesting and eating and I’ll be sure to tell you guys how it taste. Lol.

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