Palillo fruit Fruit

$150.00

It is an evergreen tree with edible fruit that typically reaches 5 – 10 m in height. The fruits are berries (3 – 6 cm diameter, up to 140 g weight) and are gathered from trees growing either wild or under cultivation. The aromatic yellow fruit is eaten raw, made into juices, or pulped for use. A perfume can be extracted from the leaves.An early illustration of the fruit was made in the mid-seventeenth century by Dorothea Eliza Smith



Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Campomanesia
Species: C. lineatifolia