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I have heard about this plant from my elder siblings.Unfortunately I do not know what it taste like.Anyone with a tree out there?
omg i always wanted to taste this fruit anyone could assist
Tasted it once when I was a child. Bought a plant from a garden shop in Sangre Grande today
I planted a tree some years now waiting for it to bear fruit.
First time I saw this tree was yesterday in #1khan street new grant
I have a tree it took about five years to bear fruit. If planted in a large container it fruit quicker.
Tasted this fruit once as a kid. Have been looking for it since....have asked several people about it , some have not heard of it before. Like to know where to get it.
Lynn, Plant can be purchased for $1.50 each at the Cumuto Pine Nursery (Forestry Division) in Cumuto.
Thank you Brian! Going to get it this week.
I bought some in the market it looks ripe but it's hard when I cut it can't eat it how do I know when it can be eaten. ?
Aka chocky apple
I LIKE IT SO NICE
SO GOOD
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this fruit is great.... sweet fuh so wen ripe good.... wen it ripe the skin will get yellow ans a little tender.. havent seen this in about 20 years.. no one i kno except for my family knows it.... from arima anywhere close in arima have it?
Hi, good day, does anyone has a photo of this fruit, if so can you post
I ate this
St Augustine Nurseries in Farm road Curepe got plants for sale @$25each. Also they presently have a display of this fruit for person interested.
I bought this fruit in the whole market ,when ripen it's soft to touch and yellow..Nice chalky fruit
Ate itin Longdenville in 1954-1955, from the property just opposite the Government School.
I think the more popular name of this fruit is Canistel or Egg Fruit. Bought one recently in Debe Farmers Market in South Trinidad.
Plants @$25 at LA reunion, back of arawak
I was just looking up Trinidad fruits we ate when growing up in the old days. We called Penny Piece Penny Peas. We had a tree in our yard then and ate the delicious fruit when it was ripe. Mind you, if you try to eat it before it ripened it tasted "cassa". For Trini people that means brackish and "tongue tying". Canistel is related to sapodilla and hardly looks like penny piece.
penny piece can also be made into a jam,marmalade, pan cake,shake and even as custard for ice cream and other desserts.
I never had it
1ate this fruit About 60 yrs when I lived on my grandmother estate . I remember the taste , it was yellow when ripe, soft and sweet. OMG I always would ask about the fruit , no one seems to know. Is there another name this.
I ate this fruit many years, normally lappe feeds on it. It is called egg fruit
Hi just buy 5 for $20 today in Curepe by the bus stop on the side with the pan yard. There are vendors selling fruits. There’s about 25 more
I have this in my back yard and bearing a lot of fruits now