Today I must share more on my late experience with cannonball tree yield .
I came across my first in - mortal cannon ball tree(Couroupita guianensis)atThe Fruit and Spice Park down in the Homestead area . It ’s one of those crazy must - see tropic plants you have a operose time believing is actual , even while you ’re star correctly at it .
The unconscionable blooms on snaky circle and the hoary - looking spherical fruit are the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ’s two main claim to renown .
The blossom have a very squeamish scent and the trees are often planted in tropical climes for that reason .
When I was out in townspeople with a protagonist the other mean solar day we drove past an aging flat complex and he slowed down .
“ Look at those , ” he said , pointing .
I blob them immediately . Two cannonball trees , loaded with blooms . And … could it be … yes ! There were yield on them as well .
The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at The Fruit and Spice Park was deal in flower but there was nary a fruit to be seen . This tree had multiple fruit growing up the trunk .
“ I ’m going to go get one , ” my ally said .
I was already half out of the auto .
We walked up to the huge trees , draped in blooms with dangling cannon ball over our heads . On the terra firma in front of us one ballad , basically beg to be picked up . So we did . A yoke of family line waved to us from the apartment building and my ally held up the yield and wave back . They waved again , which I guess meant “ take it ! ”
I was stoke . The fruit was almost the sizing of a bowling ball with a gravelly , wry shell with a few arcminute scissure that looked similar to the fused bone on top of a human skull .
“ I consider these are edible , ” I note . “ They ’re a relation of Brazil nuts . I ca n’t hold back to look deep down ! ”
My friend suppose “ you’re able to take it home and open up it up , just save a few seeds so I can plant some too ! ”
I decided that I would give the cannon ball tree diagram yield on television camera so I could deal the experience with all of you . It cease up being much more entertaining than I first expect .
Hehhehheh ! I know my job !
More About the Cannonball Tree Fruit
When I first reach the cannonball tree fruit , I thought perhaps it smell bad because it was rotten .
No such luck .
As Singapore ’s National Parks websiteputs it :
“ Fruits develop in 18 month , stay on the tree for a year or more before they fall with a thud . They are very large and rotund , up to 25 cm across , greyish brown , heavy and looking like carom balls . The fruit are fill with a smelly and soft blood-red flesh . Old yield decay slowly to liberate the many seeds . The ripe anatomy has an unpleasant smell . ”
“ Unpleasant smell ” is an understatement .
The round shot tree fruit smells like a bloated 2 - ton 3 - mean solar day - deadened possum passed accelerator pedal , get a tequila - saturated hobo to projectile barf into an adjacent dumpster filled with moulder cheese and mayonnaise .
That’s what cannonball tree fruit smell like.
My tummy was doing toss by the ending of that brusque video and I ’m unremarkably possessed of a higher - than - normal margin for spirit . I enjoy cigar , Limburger cheese , Pisces the Fishes sauce , sauerkraut and sardines … but cannonball tree yield are far beyond anything I ’ve ever encounter .
If it ’s comestible , I do n’t want it . And I ’ve eat on some weird things . No . Just no .
Uses for the Cannonball Tree
Okay , so what is the cannonball tree diagram good for , if not for eating ?
It ’s known to produce an abundance of pollen which is privilege by bee , despite the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ’s complete lack of ambrosia . The interior shell of the yield can be used likewise to the calabash tree tree diagram for utensils and arena . One sitealso claims that the Natalie Wood of the round shot Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is used for making incense .
The blooms smell out excellent and can be used in perfume - making .
It ’s not as utile as I would have hoped , but I did save seeds and will embed them anyhow . Just because .
A Final Note
The cannonball Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree amount with a admonition on more than one site . The websiteFlowers of India warn :
“ carom ball trees usually bear ‘ CAUTION ’ signs posted on the trunks to send word people not to place upright close to and direct under the yield as one can get hurt as they shake off off by themselves . ”
Where I now hold out the natives do n’t bother with that sort of thing . The two trees were growing justly at the entranceway to a gamey - density apartment building and there were a couple more of them dispatch a run-in at the construction next to it .
Unlike the US where everything is grounds for a lawsuit , if you take a cannonball to the head here … you in all likelihood merit it for not look up .
I also suppose I merit my upset tummy for opening that freaky thing . My digit reek atrocious for the rest of the day from picking seeds out of the putrid flesh – that odor stick .
That state , I still ca n’t expect to grow my own tree . For science .
