When ripe shiny redthe flesh is white in color. When unripe the macopas skin is pink in color.
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Some pinoys believe that it is quite lucky to plant a macopa in front of the house because unlike most fruiting trees the macopa fruit does not undergo a sour stage.
Macopa fruit tree. Still best to pick yours straight off the backyard tree. South india to eastern malaysia. Macopa fruit contains calcium and minerals that are beneficial to your bones.
Huge amount of fruit tree is regularly given water but is growing brilliantly in pretty much plain sand the default here in perth lots of sun. Syzygium samarangense is a plant species in the family myrtaceae native to an area that includes the greater sunda islands malay peninsula and the andaman and nicobar islands but introduced in prehistoric times to a wider area and now widely cultivated in the tropicscommon names in english include wax apple java apple semarang rose apple and wax jambu. Most notable is its bell shape figure that inspired this myth on how this fruit came to be.
This free branching medium sized tree similar to malay apple is somewhat hardier. Myrtaceae wax jamboo java apple macopa origin. Older leaves are large drooping elliptic oblong to broadly oblong lanceolate 15 to 30 centimeters long 7 to 15 centimeters wide narrowed and pointed at both ends.
It also has large and wide glossy leaves and a waxy looking fruit probably hence the common name. Macopa is a bell shaped fruit thats widely eaten in the philippines. Macopa is a crunchy fruit about the size of a tomato.
Wendy white perth wa 05 feb 2009 wax jambu pink. The mysterious tree continuously grow bearing many red bell shaped fruits which the people later on found out was edible. One of the benefits is to strengthen the bone so as to avoid bone problems such as prevent osteoporosis naturallymacopa fruit can also be relied upon to overcome the inflammation that occurs in the joints.
The kids love the fruits unique shape to them it looks like a goblet. Leaves are pinkish when young. When ripe it is shiny red.
One of the favorite trees to plant in any pinoy backyard is macopa. At a shoemart grocery today i was amazed to find makopa for sale in the fruit section because they dont usually keep wellat p33 a kilo but they looked a tad bit beaten up. Here in the philippines visayans know this fruit as tambis while others call it tersana yanba or yanbu.
Syzygium samarangense syzygium javanicum eugenia javanica family. Botany makopa is a tree reaching a height of 10 meters. Syzygium samarangense in the past this fruit had also been given the scientific names of eugenia javanica and syzygium malaccense.
The fruit goes from bland to semi sweet as it ripens. When unripe it is pink in color. Thus superstition would follow that macopa would not cast.
And just after few days the people started calling the fruit makopa or macopa java appleuntil now the fruit was still called the same macopa. Wax jambu pink weve moved into a place with an already established tree looks to be at least 8 years old. Its very crunchy juicy and enjoyable to eat.
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