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Published 2014
The unrelated ‘Jamaican cherry’, Muntingia calabura, in the family Elaeocarpaceae, is also often known as capulin or capuli in Latin America. It is indigenous to C. and tropical S. America, but is now widely grown elsewhere, e.g. India, Malaysia (where it is known as ‘Japanese’ or ‘Chinese cherry’), and the Philippines. Its small red or yellow fruits have a light brown, soft, juicy pulp, filled with minute yellowish seeds, too small to notice when eating. It has a sweet, figlike flavour.