Chewing Gum Fruit Live Plant (Thespesia garckeana) Plant Type:Seedling Plant Used in making jams

Used in making jams

Complex sweet

reaching heights of 3 to 15 meters

Taste resembling lychee and grape

Heartwood is dark pink to red-brown

Chewing Gum Fruit Live Plant (Thespesia garckeana) Plant Type:Seedling Plant Used in making jamsChewing Gum fruit or Snot Apple is an evergreen or semi deciduous shrub or small, spreading tree usually growing 3 13 metres tall but with occasional specimens to 20 metres. Gathered from the wild, it provides food, medicines, fibre and fuel. The edible fruit is sometimes sold in local markets. The tree is sometimes protected when growing around farms and homesteads, and is also planted for shade and as an ornamental. The ripe fruit carpels are