Central CA count? I've been growing rose apples for years, seeds brought back from an excellent bush in S. Baja home. Fruit every third year or so, frost knocks down flowers/fruits the other years. Have about 6 in gallon cans in the greenhouse from PR to plant out after this winter. Don't know about fruit on those, but the Mexican ones are spicy and very good. Don't know where that "tastes like rosewater" came from as these are the only ones I've ever had. Also it is a very pretty bush.