The Caribbean Dictionary
Noun
Otaheite apple; Pear shaped fruit with red skin and white flesh. Typically, they contain a single large seed. However, they may occasionally be seedless. The fruit is sweet and is usually eaten raw or used to make drinks.
cajuil, cashew, kwachimelon, kwachimelon (not sure of the spelling), malaba, otaheite apple, plumrose, pomerac, pomme d'armour, pumarosa, titi apple
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gtgrl
Apr 12, 2011
This looks like what we call cashew in Guyana..
Luluh
Jun 10, 2014
OMG!!! One of the best fruit you'll ever taste!! Yummy!! If you haven't had a Otaheite Apple (Jamaican Apple) before, put it on your bucket list to eat one.
Peggy Woodley
Jan 30, 2015
This fruit is called a Plumrose, in St. Vincent. Yes, it is very tasty
thyema
Feb 04, 2015
u no want fi stop eat it when taste it
Brudda Bob
Feb 05, 2015
Referred to as cashew in Guyana, there are several different kinds and are all delicious!
belizean pride
Mar 22, 2015
We call it mali apple in belize... salt and marie sharps with this is amazing!!!!
Leela
May 15, 2015
Called pomerac in Trinidad!! Smells so good too!!
Helen
Aug 18, 2015
Love to make chow with it .......yummy!
ROHAN
Oct 25, 2015
French cashew in Grenada
Chin
Jan 04, 2016
Very juicy and delicious can be use to make a drink too with plenty ginger it quenches thirst
Junie
Jan 21, 2016
Just discovered a tree of this in my friends garden in Dominica - we juiced it very nice off to pick some more and going to add ginger to the mix:)
PINK
Feb 12, 2016
AMEN Better than any fruit you ever had !!
Ewan
Apr 07, 2016
I haven't tasted this fruit since 1964 when I lift Jamaica as a young boy. I have been back on numerous occasions but they are always out of season but this time I am going to make a special journey so that I can enjoy an Otaheite apple. Re-kindle our acquaintance, can't wait.
Gina
Apr 23, 2016
I am doing a project with this apple - to create an original product... I'm using it to make a jam.
BOB
May 19, 2016
PLANT!!!
Kevin
May 19, 2016
Known as cashew in Grenada
Ainsley
Jun 03, 2016
Apple in Antigua
Miriam
Sep 06, 2016
I'm new to T&T and I just bought some of this. I was hoping they're sweeter. Is this Pomerac or cashew? I thought they're 2 different fruit with the cashew being more yellow?
Lingaling
Jun 03, 2017
Pomerac is the fruit and the seed outside the pomerac resembles a cashew ..
I -fe
Jun 29, 2017
No this fruit is diffeerent to the fruit if the cashew tree.
Billy Tee
Aug 01, 2017
I have a tree on my land.... It's called "pumarosa" "pumerose".... Delicious & Juicy
Jam
Aug 31, 2018
Err these are Red Cashews
David
Dec 30, 2018
No Jam you thinking of another fruit. This in Antigua is apple
Simon
Jan 21, 2019
Custard Apple in Antigua. Cashew is different.
Jen
Feb 05, 2019
Simon I think the Custard Apple has a bumpy skin. We have them in Jamaica too.
Brenda Henderson
Mar 11, 2019
Can you get the big seed/pit to root......like an avacoda pit?
LOR
Aug 31, 2021
CUSTARD APPLE IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Jackson
Nov 29, 2021
ARE YOU SURE?
Crematho
Jan 19, 2022
Love it, def my favorite fruit! We call it cajuil in Dominican Republic.
Dino Nazamodeen
Jan 23, 2022
In Guyana we call it Cashew and there are many verities.
Fruity
Aug 03, 2022
In St Lucia we call it pommdamou ( pomme d'amour) or love apple