Garcinia schomburgkiana and ambarells

[Mike T]

Stumbled across a Garcinia schomburgkiana tree today. The fruit are sour and used in cooking.


Big ambarellas littered the ground under the trees from cockatoos chewing fruit and stems.

[Mike T]

One patch where ambarella dropping from height were shattered.


Oh yeah also saw a Lakoocha tree with some fruit this morning

[Jaboticaba45]

Those ambarella look beautiful. The ones I have only get to a quarter of that size. I assume they still have the same taste? I have never seen them that large.

[Mike T]

Yes more flesh yield with the giant fruiting ambarella but trees grow big.

Garcinia schomburgkiana have elongated seeds and taste less sour than bilimbi with a rose water taste in them.

[Darve]

Looks like a giant crab claw coming out of it Mike.Cheers David

[Mike T]

In fact I needed the pincer manoeuvre to get these. It is 4 seeds in the pic but the front 2 obstruct the ones behind. The mother tree is loaded and only a few were on the ground.