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Spondias dulcis
Also called Ambarella, Golden Apple / Amra, Jew Plum, Otaheite Apple, Polynesian Plum, Golden Apple, Witree
In Singapore: Kedondong, Great Hog Plum, Golden Apple, Otaheite Apple, Yellow Plum, Jew Plum, Ambarella (Grown in Singapore)
Spondias dulcis is a fast-growing tropical fruit tree in the cashew family, grown for its golden, plum-sized fruit with a fibrous pit. It needs warm, frost-free conditions and plenty of room, and it is typically grown outdoors rather than indoors.
Spondias dulcis (syn. Spondias cytherea), known commonly as Polynesian plum or Tahiti apple, is a tropical fruit tree native to Melanesia, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit.
The tree was spread to neighboring regions as canoe plants in Island Southeast Asia and Polynesia in prehistoric times by seafaring Austronesians during the Austronesian expansion. It remains widely cultivated in Polynesia, where it is generally known under the names vī or wī, and variants thereof.
Spondias dulcis is native to the coastal areas of Melanesia and Southeast Asia, specifically modern day Indonesia and Malaysia, and has been introduced into tropical areas across the world. It was brought to Jamaica in 1782, and it is cultivated in Panama, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Brazil, Costa Rica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, St. Lucia, and eastern Sucre in Venezuela. The United States Department of Agriculture received seeds from Liberia in 1909, but it did not become a popular crop in the US. Nevertheless, it is grown in South Florida as far north as Palm Beach County. The fruit is also widely grown in Somalia's agriculture belt, probably introduced during the colonial times preceding 1960.
Yellow mombin · Common Hog Plum · Purple mombin · Imbu · Mombin
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
