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Mombin purple (Latin Spondias purpurea) - a fruit tree belonging to the Sumach family. This plant also has a second name - Mexican plum. This name is due to the similarity of its fruits with the well-known plum (not only in structure, but also in taste).
Description
Mombin purple is a very pretty, low-branched, deciduous small tree, reaching a height of seven and a half to fifteen meters.
The length of the odd-pinnate compound leaves of this plant ranges from twelve to twenty-five centimeters. All leaves consist of five to nineteen smaller leaves (from two to four centimeters long), which can be both lanceolate and ovoid and are endowed with very short petioles. Young leaves are characterized by a reddish color, and after some time they turn into dark green shades.
Small flowers of an attractive mombin are painted in purple or reddish tones and are collected in bizarre panicles reaching four centimeters in length.
The fruits of this culture are ovoid or oval, slightly elongated drupes, the length of which can vary from two and a half to five centimeters. Fruits can be colored either red or orange, or yellow or purple. From above, each fruit is covered with a shiny and thin skin, and inside they contain a sour and incredibly juicy fibrous yellowish pulp, which has a rather rich aroma. The yellowish-brownish hard pits of the fruit are equipped with characteristic longitudinal grooves.
It is noteworthy that mombin is able to bear fruit even before the spring blooming of leaves starts. And this culture usually bears fruit from May to July.
Where grows
Mombin purple is found with equal frequency both in culture and in the wild on the islands of the Caribbean, as well as in the territory from Peru and Brazil to Central Mexico. In addition, this crop is grown in the picturesque Philippines, distant Nigeria and Venezuela.
Application
The fruits of this plant are excellent for eating raw, and for canning or pickling. And if you put out mombin with sugar, you get an incredibly delicious dessert. And the jam from these fruits turns out to be excellent, and the compotes from them are not only tasty, but also very useful. By the way, in the Philippines, based on these fruits, they make a rather peculiar sour stew.
You can eat fresh and young mombin leaves. By the way, these sour leaves make excellent cabbage soup, which even the most fastidious gourmets eat with great pleasure. They are also used as a seasoning for a wide variety of fish and all kinds of meat dishes and are added to various salads.
A decoction from the bark of this plant is an excellent remedy for the treatment of flatulence and for the early relief of diarrhea.
Contraindications
When eating mombin fruits, allergic reactions can sometimes occur, as well as a pronounced individual intolerance.
Growing
To soil mombin purple is extremely unpretentious. This plant has long been valued in landscaping for the fact that cuttings planted in the ground quickly adapt, take root well and grow easily even without any special care.
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