Lost Crops of Africa Volume III: Fruits (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Victorian novelist Charles Kingsley described it as, "like an evergreen peach, shedding from the underside of every leaf a golden light -- call it not shade? A star apple." 2 Some botanists divide African star apples among different genera: Chrysophyllum, Bequaertiodendron, and Manilkara.
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Budgrafting white star apple, for example, has produced fruiting within 3 years in Nigeria.3 When superior fruits become available they seem likely to find ready outlets in both subsistence and commerce. However, at present not even the basics of production and use are well described.
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High in pectin, it forms an excellent jam, said to have a shelf life of up to a year even in the tropics. In some areas the white star apple is exclusively a food of children, some of whom prefer to chew the immature fruit, which at that stage is like gum.4 4 This is not as unusual as might at first appear.
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. African star apples remain horticulturally undeveloped and their nutritional qualities are undocumented.
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6 is distributed widely, from Guinea to Tanzania and from Nigeria to South Africa, where it is one of the more popular "veld fruit." Its bright scarlet, plumlike fruits have a pinkish-purple pulp of pleasant flavor. Women often collect large quantities, crush them in water, and boil the resulting extract with maize to produce a colorful and tasty porridge.
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The red fruits have a tart but pleasant flavor and are much enjoyed by humans and animals alike. Found in South Africa (Natal coast)
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