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Mombin yellow (Latin Spondias mombin) - a fruit tree representing the Sumach family. This plant is often called the Jamaican plum.
Description
The yellow mombin is a deciduous fruit tree with a luxurious spreading crown. And its height is within forty - forty-five meters. The length of the odd-pinnate and compound leaves reaches half a meter, with each leaf consisting of an odd number (usually from five to nineteen) of smaller leaves, which are ovoid-lanceolate and grow from five to fifteen centimeters in length.
Miniature little white flowers of a yellow mombin fold into graceful panicles, the length of which can reach forty centimeters.
The fruits of this plant are ovoid or slightly oval drupes, reaching up to two and a half centimeters in width and up to four centimeters in length. Ripe fruits are covered with a rather tough, but at the same time very thin skin, painted in golden yellow tones pleasing to the eye.
The flesh of the fruit is slightly musky, surprisingly juicy and rather sour with a slight turpentine flavor. Inside the fruit, bones are hidden, the length of which sometimes reaches two centimeters, and such bones are painted in pleasant cream tones. In addition, they are equipped with many longitudinal wrinkles.
After the trees have bloomed, the fruits form on them quickly enough, but they only ripen for a long time. And as soon as they fall to the ground, they begin to germinate quickly, with new plants starting to harvest eight months later!
Where grows
Yellow mombin is a native of tropical South American and Central American forests, in particular, from distant Peru, hot Brazil and colorful southern Mexico. And now it is also cultivated in Indonesia, Bermuda, India and Malaysia.
Application
The fruits of this culture are consumed both fresh and processed. Juice is squeezed out of them, which is subsequently used to make delicious soft drinks, and they are canned with added sugar. The pulp of these fruits is added to both ice cream and jelly. As for the local population, they also pickle these fruits or prepare canned food with the addition of chili. Guatemalans make wonderful cider from these fruits, and in the Amazon they make rich wines. And the yellow mombin is simply adored by the monkeys living in his homeland.
Yellow mombin is very rich in various vitamins, carotene, useful trace elements and sugars. And the energy value of these fruits largely depends on the growing conditions and ranges from 21 to 48 kcal for every 100 g of the product.
The juice of these fruits is an excellent diuretic and highly effective antipyretic agent.
The bark can be used as a laxative, and the decoction prepared from it is an excellent antitussive agent. And the dried powder prepared from the bark perfectly copes with the role of dusting on purulent wounds.
An infusion of the leaves of the plant can be used for coughing, and also as a laxative for fever accompanied by constipation. It will also serve well for sexually transmitted diseases, diarrhea and various eye ailments.
Contraindications
Having decided to eat yellow mombin, it is important to observe the measure - overeating can lead to a rather serious digestive upset, on the eve of which there is a constant urge to vomit. Allergic reactions arising from individual intolerance are not excluded.
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