Very strange fruit. Please help Identify

[wilka]

Hi folks
Can anyone please help to identify this fruit.
Found it on one of the old plantations in Suriname.
It smells very sweet, a mix of mango and soursop.
Never seen or eten this before.

Thanks

[Botanicus]

Looks like Dillenia indica

[fruitlovers]

Yes Elephant Apple, Dillenia indica.

[Tropicdude]

Tree has very attractive foliage,  In the only place I know it grows here, people seek it for medicinal properties,  I know they bathe with it somehow,  never got the details.  online it says its good for some skin conditions so I must assume its used for that purpose.

[Mike T]

There are quite a few planted around the Cairns Convention Centre and they never seem to get used by anyone.

[Future]

Before i was  into fruit, we found these on the ground, honeymooning in the Seychelles 20 years ago.

[pineislander]

Chalta is used extensively in Assam NE India, pickles, curry, etc.

[Guanabanus]

Skin flaps eaten in curry.

Chopped and soaked two weeks in alcohol, then that alcohol is applied to arthritic joints for pain relief.

So I'm told.   Never ate nor used.