In gaps in the dense canopy, fruit trees and vegetables soaked up the sun -- banana, papaya, mountain apple, orange, persimmon and patches of chili pepper, eggplant, chard and cherry tomato, all grown for the family's home use.
About me were the pungent scents of a lush, tropical island: the raw sweetness of overripe fruit like papaya, mango, jamalac (mountain apple), banana, breadfruit, coconut; the woody smoke of burning brush; fleeting whiffs of frangipani blossoms, and the salty tang of the surrounding sea.
There is breadfruit and several types of banana, dryland and swamp taro, lemons and limes, papaya and mango, sweet potato, cassava, pandanus, mountain apple and coconut.
Their selection of plants included 'Ape, 'Awa, 'Awapuhi Kuahiwi (shampoo ginger), Hau Ipu, Kalo (taro), Kamani, Ki, Ko (sugar cane), Kou, Kukui, Mai'a (banana), Niu (coconut), Noni, 'Ohe (bamboo), 'ohi'a 'Ai (mountain apple), 'Olena (turmeric), Olana, Pia, Uala (sweet potato), Uhi (yam), 'Ulu and Wauke.
& L. M. Perry) and mountain apple (S. malaccense (L).
The wild guavas and the mountain apples and the ginger.
Steve Lepton holds a few mountain apples on a farm in Laura, Marshall Islands.
There was always a pot of something on the stove and bags of fresh picked avocados, mountain apples, mangos, and papaya ready for everyone to take home.
LAURA VILLAGE, Marshall Islands -- Holding in his hand a bunch of what he called mountain apples, Steve Lepton grinned like a kid with a new toy.
To create the pechuga, which sells for $200 a bottle in the States, the palenquero (mezcal maker) puts 100 liters of double-distilled mezcal in the still, then adds 100 kilos of wild mountain apples and plums, big red plantain banans, pineapples, a handful of almonds, some white rice, and then the skinless chicken breast suspended by strings".
They should consider planting and encouraging people to plant many more tulip poplar, hawthorn, goldenrain, dawn redwood, mountain ash, apple and serviceberry.
