By Lee Koelzer | Director
Jambula fruit are interesting. They originated in India but spread all across Africa with Indian immigrants and traders. The fruits are small (about the size of a juicy grape) and dark purple- almost black. Village children often eat the fruit right off the tree, while adults most commonly boil the fruits with a bit of salt.
Jambula are most closely related to plums, but they taste like olives, which does not make sence to me at all. Fortunately, people in the village LOVE them and they are a great source of vitamins and fiber. As they have a very low retail value ( about 2 cups of the fruit sells for about $0.03) they are not worth selling, so we are giving out the seedlings just so people can eat the fruit!
We have a large jambula tree on our farm and we harvest the seeds and fruits (which were not gathered up by village children, squirrels, and birds) to grow seedlings, which we give out to the villagers. Fortunately the tree starts fruiting in about 3 years- so the villagers do not have to wait long!
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