Red Mombin Fruit - The Spondias Purpurea

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Red Mombin Fruit - The Spondias Purpurea


Red Mombin - Pondias Purpurea

One of the most popular small fruits of the American tropics, the Red Mombin, Spondias purpurea.
The red mombin may be a shrub or low-branched small tree 8m in height. The branches are thick and brittle. The tiny, 4- to 5-petalled flowers are red or purple and borne in short, hairy panicles along the branches before the leaves appear which are a beautiful bright-red or purple when young. The fruits are plum-like, borne singly or in groups of 2 or 3,varying in colour from purple to bright-red, even yellow sometimes. They vary in shape and size from 2-5cm. The skin is glossy and firm; the flesh aromatic, yellow, fibrous, very juicy, with a rich, plum-like, subacid to acid flavor. Best eaten fresh for a light refreshing snack, but can also be made into jams, chutney, stewed, boiled or dried.




Purple Mombin, Hog Plum

Mombin is fast growing, spreading tree with thick branches. Compound leaves to 15. Showy, fragrant flowers appear from dormant, leafless branches in red, purple or yellow indicating the color of the fruit to come. Fruit oval to round, 1 - 2 1/2. This is heavy producing tree. The pleasant smell of the fruit can be noted many feet away. The 1 to 2 inch long oval or oblong fruits have a fairly large sigle seed. The skin is waxy and thin and the juicy flesh is aromatic with a plum-like flavor that is acid to subacid. The fruit can be eaten fresh or stewed with sugar as a dessert or can be used to make a very good jam or pickled green in East Indian cooking. Mombin butter, using an apple butter recipe, is exceptionally tasty.



Purple mombin, Spanish plum, red mombin, Jamaica plum, Chile plum

Red mombin is a native of tropical America.  It has spread and naturalized throughout the tropics all over the world.  It is commonly cultivated for its fruit.  The fruits are sold mostly along the roads and streets as well as in the native markets.

Red mombin was t carried by the Spanish explorers to the Philippines, where it has been widely adopted. The tree is naturalized throughout much of Nigeria and occasionally cultivated for its fruit..  In the United States, some people have planted in Florida as a novel fruit.



Yellow Mombin, Spondias mombin

Small, 1-1.5" long yellow fruit with juicy translucent acidic pulp of varying flavor and a large seed. A medium-large sized tree to 60ft. The yellow mombin is fairly adaptable to both dry and wet tropical zones but will not succeed in areas that receive frost. Fruits are juicy so they are often eaten as thirst quenchers. Occasionally the yellow mombin is used to flavor drinks and ice creams.



Yellow Mombin, Spondias mombin

Geographic Origins and Regions Grown. A member of the same botanical family as the golden apple, the hog apple originates and is still found today in most tropical American locations ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, Suriname and the Caribbean islands.  It is also grown in India, Africa, Indonesia and the southeastern US.

 


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