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JJude14 years ago
Wicked fruit that I haven't had in years!! So tasty!! Mmmm, yummy!
Nadine13 years ago
I was actually craving this , and had to google it<br /> To show my husband because he had no clue as to <br /> What this fruit was. So sweet and juicy <br /> Would really work Nicly mixed with a garden salad <br /> Yummy in my tummy
Colln13 years ago
Guyanese folks call it "cashew"
Alison T.13 years ago
My favourite fruit!!
siyo12 years ago
they are called pomerac in T&T
June12 years ago
Spelled "Pomme Au Rac" in TT and elsewhere. Trees can grow to over 50 feet.
chirsto12 years ago
Colin, it may resemble a cashew, but there is no nut at the base of the fruit. So it is not a cashew. We have those in Trinidad as well, and they are called cashew. These are pommeracs or pomme au racs. And they probalbly grow in Guyana as well. Tall trees, large pink wisyp flowers. Thin red skin, white tender flesh. Large seed inside.
called malay apple in Belize
STACY Y BLONDELL-ORR12 years ago
WE always had a pomarac tree, I loved the fruit since I was a child. I tried planting the seed in my other grandmother's yard, when I went on vacation, but it never grew. I was dissapointed the following year, when I arrived to find nothing in the spot where I had left the seed. We still however have the original tree on the other side where my other grandmother lived.
Manicou12 years ago
In Grenada we call it "French cashew" or just "cashew". I am literally eating one as I type this.
IIrmgard11 years ago
I agree with Chirsto
Delanna11 years ago
It looks like plumrose to me
Purdey11 years ago
I love this fruit. It can be found in Barbados but few bajans know of it. My gran was from St. Vincent and St.Lucia and introduce it to me. It is plentiful in St. Lucia. I also attempt to grow this plant from the seed at home but was not successful. Found it Welchman Hall Gully and in St. Andrew while hiking. I really need to find best to grow it, tried growing the seed but that did not work.
wayne Murray11 years ago
Cashew is the fruit with the seed on the out side, pomerac,/ malaka, is red and the seed is inside the fruit
Neale11 years ago
Can the fruit or just the seed be brought to the USA? I want to grow some trees in Florida.
Shivana11 years ago
Well in Guyana we call it *cashew* and it is so tasty. But i wonder if pomerac and cashew are the same.
Middleton11 years ago
This I have noticed for awhile some places will call a fruit with the name of a different fruit.Like in this case Otaheite apple is bright red with a fresh sweet cottony flesh.The cashew fruit has the same pear shape but the skin is yellow and the flesh is stainy and almost rubbery in texture.The nut is borne on the exterior at the base of the fruit a strange thing to see/
reshma11 years ago
how do you guys call this fruit in jamaica ?
Jahmileo11 years ago
we call this apple, this grow wild n natural
Jahivah11 years ago
This is pomerac not cashew. The seed is inside. It is a spongy fruit.
Dawn11 years ago
it's called an Otaheite apple in Jam! My fav fruit.
Lecy11 years ago
Its called an apple in Jamaica we're i'm from
In Jamaica its called otaheite apple, red apple or just plain apple.
jason11 years ago
Guyanese people are stupid,Cashews...lol
Raeann11 years ago
In my visit to Jamaica; they laughed at me just this week for calling this POMERAC,, Been eating this all week, its in season now in Jamaica. My fav fruit
Ok. Right. A plumose.
kush10 years ago
Pomerac in Dominica too
Kat10 years ago
Plum rose here- does anyone know if it can grow in Florida ?
Saleem10 years ago
Pommerac comes from French pomme malac (apple from malacca). The Jamaicans call it otaheite apple, which means apple from Tahiti. Whatever you call it -- one of the best fruits ever!
Bobzyoy10 years ago
Wickedest fruit ever !
BARBARU10 years ago
The taste is phenomenal!
Angi10 years ago
Is there a similar looking fruit called pommerac in Jamaica? It resembles the pommerac fruit in shape but smaller in size, light pink in color, with a crunch to the bite and a mild flavor and no seed inside. Someone help please just ate one and wants to know if I should have.
The person who said, "Guyanese people are stupid, cashew" Made me laugh so hard I almost peepee on me. I can''t!!!
Suel Bee10 years ago
We call it Otaheite Apple here in Jamaica...really delicious whether eaten raw, in a stew/salad or juiced. Bad like rass!
Jad9 years ago
It is called a variety of names and it varies remarkably from one country to the next. They are all innovative names so none of them is really correct. If Guyanese call it cashew or in Trinidad pomerac, they are just the local names subjected to those countries or any other in which it grows. It's widely grown in in tropical countries...
Purdi9 years ago
Love love this fruit. A tree grew in my grandmother backyard, so we had unlimited access when in season, the best.
Vicmaxx9 years ago
We call it pomme d'armour or love apple.
VOUKA9 years ago
WHY'S IT CALLED LOVE APPLE?
Christopher9 years ago
Also my favourite fruit
Kikay9 years ago
My favourite fruit
Jianna9 years ago
One of my favorite fruits!!😍
TrinA9 years ago
Ohh goshhh, since I come foreign I haven't had this fruit, was def one of my faves growing up, where can I find/buy this fruit in America?
Dwillz9 years ago
Plumrose it is
Jamesa Phillips9 years ago
Well in Guyana it is known as cashew but clearly it's different from pomerrac but its the same fruit
Lori8 years ago
In Guyana we call it cashew because of it similar resemblance.
Wayde8 years ago
When is the best time of the year to plant this fruit... 🤔?
Paul8 years ago
I am 48 years old and have been eating this fruit now for 48 years and 9 months now .LOVE IT!!!
Kenny8 years ago
Crick! Crack! monkey break he back for ah piece ah pomerac ...
Dee8 years ago
Known as pommearac in Trinidad. Grew up knowing this fruit so the taste is palatable. Not well known by Bajans therefore not tasty. I also planted seeds from Weichman Hall Gully and the are now about 3ft tall . They are in season now and recently received a large bag full. Will make a jam and use some in salad. They are of a very small variety. Kenny. - I remember that, hahaha
Indi8 years ago
Local as we call it makes also a very good homemade wine . I always make at xmas. Delicious to soak fruits for black cakes.
Andre8 years ago
I would love to get a seed to plan it and grow it in the Usa
Ron8 years ago
A cashew does not have a seed on the inside. It is also not a nut. It is actually a bean.
Din Din7 years ago
Now that Jamaican's know the correct name of the fruit, let them go with the rest of the world and call it by its correct name, "pomerac".
Bbb7 years ago
Correction Guyanese people isn’t stupid that is the name we call this fruit CASHEW
Princess Greenz7 years ago
Growing up I’ve always known this as french apple 🤷🏽♀️ I will never call it anything else
J7 years ago
Is pommerac people
TunPlantain7 years ago
This fruit may resemble cashew but it is not cashew. This is similar in taste to an apple that grows in places with a colder climate. I don't know why some West Indians treasure imported North American apples, when you have this fruit which tastes very similar.
Mark Headley7 years ago
Ye man i had this fruit the first time i was Trinidad,this around the 60ś I was introduced to this lovely tasting fruit-Fell in love with it,However i have not tasted it now for over 30 years.Should be cultivated more.
gina7 years ago
Hey I no longer live in Guyana but growing up in Mackenzie (now Linden) we used to call them malaccas, and then when I moved to Georgetown heard my Grandfather calling them cashews (and we know it s not the nut !!). I have spent 40 odd years trying to describe this fruit and to find it. Only once came across it in a Malaysian supemarket. Caribbean and Guyana for best fruit and veg.
Bev7 years ago
In greenz we call this tasty fruit French cashew am munching on one right now..
CaribXavi6 years ago
We call that a Morroco in SKN
SpiceQueen6 years ago
Calling someone stupid is rude AF. Around the world people call the same things different names, just because you call it one thing doesn’t make it wrong from someone who calls it something else. In Grenada we call it French Cashew.
Spice man6 years ago
In Grenada it’s called a French cashew, in Hawaii it’s called Malay Apple or mountain Apple.
Cecejax6 years ago
We in St. Vincent know it as Plumrose......my favorite!🇻🇨
AAdriana6 years ago
In Colombia we call it Pomarrosa...
yhan6 years ago
we call it plum rose and also we call it malaba
Kenjo6 years ago
So what do Guyanese call cashew?
Kenjo6 years ago
The fruit we call cashew in Trinidad I mean
Kenjo6 years ago
So what do Guyanese call what the rest of us know as cashew?
SJJ6 years ago
In Grenada it's known as French Cashews 🇬🇩 Inspite of the different names, when I travel to any of those islands 🏝 I WILL call it what they call it to aquire some!😉 I L💓VE THEM
Dira6 years ago
In my country it is called pomerac, not cashew
Helene6 years ago
HERE THESE ARE 2 DIFFERENT FRUITS; THE VERY JUICY ONE IS CALLED POMME-A-RAC AND IT'S SEED GROWS INSIDE THE FRUIT. THE OTHER IS CALLED CASHEW WHOSE HARD SEED IS ALWAYS ON THE OUTSIDE. THE JUICE STAINS. THE SEEDS CAN BE ROASTED AND ARE DELICIOUS; CAN BE PRICEY TOO. SJJ YOU ARE 'DOWN-TO-EARTH' -- ENJOY THEM BOTH!
Aa6 years ago
I had some by y cousins backyard its a big tree.
Sur5 years ago
So is there any place in the US that Pomerac can be bought? I noticed a couple places on line offer the plant but not actual fruit
JJ5 years ago
Ethiopia Apple. 🇯🇲
Alison5 years ago
I'm not from Grenada but both my parents are. I remember visiting the country when I was 10yrs old some 30 years ago now and I was told then they were called cashew. However whatever they are called I remember enjoying eating them.
John5 years ago
The person who said Guyanese are stupid is also stupid. We call it cashew. So WHAT????
Nas5 years ago
Guyana has both the actual cashew and this fruit which we call cashew as well. This fruit (pomerac) is widely found on the coast whereas the cashew you have to start going inland so most times people know that you mean pomerac when you say 'cashew. If confronted with both fruits the pomerac is called cashew apple and the cashew remains 'cashew'
Shantie Ramnarine-Parsan5 years ago
Pomerac/Jamun/Jamoon in Trinidad. Cashew is a different fruit. Plumrose is a different fruit here.
Ebanks5 years ago
Malay Apple in Cayman islands
Bobby5 years ago
Mountain Apple
Wendell5 years ago
That's why the Caribbean can't be one simple nàme big argument different names for the same fruit just like chennet in Jamaica ginep in Barbados ackees same fruit please get over it
Sonny5 years ago
Thanks Saleem - Pomme Malac is the most original sounding version of the word. Pomme-a-rac or Pommerac is definitely a 'distortion' of the original word. Can you elaborate more on the origins of the words - certainly sounds French? Is the fruit native to the Caribbean or was it brought from elsewhere?
Canadian Vincy4 years ago
Syzygium malaccense
M4 years ago
Of course Guyanese stupid so are the Jamaicans who called everything apples
RC Lee4 years ago
I just want to say, let us celebrate our diversity and unite. There is no reason to call people and their country "stupid" just because they have a different name for something. Please, let's do better. Peace and blessings to all who read this.
I am reading your4 years ago
I am reading your comments and longing for sweet sweet Trinidad, these tropical fruits
CoeurC4 years ago
Very moisturizing and refreshing fruit. We call them "Pomme d'eau" in Martinique.
DDe Freitas Errol2 years ago
Pomme Malacca, Apple of Malacca, Malaysia