It's a Pequi fruit, which is native to Brazil
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Looks like cucurbitaceae but couldn’t say much beyond that. Brazil is not well known to me.
Was it growing on a vine?
Yeah, it would help a lot to know if it's a tree or vine.
If you only got the seeds though, it would also help to know the size of the seeds
Medium-small tree. I thought that I had photos of the leaves as well, but I can't find them now.
Would you say the leaves are long ovals?
What's it taste like?
I haven't eaten it, but my friend says that it tastes savoury and funky almost like durian.
Looks like Huito (Jagua) fruit
That was my guess too, called jenipapo where I'm from. So perhaps something in a nearby clade.
Similar, but the fruit is green when ripe, and the pulp is always that bright orange colour, and Genipa americana wouldn't be growing wild where my friend lives, and even if it were, it would be a big tree.
Looks a bit like mangosteen. But mangosteen is black with white fruit.
Something in the same family?
Possible, but Garcinia fruits usually have distinct segments, which this doesn't. I'm not familiar with other Clusiaceae, but I doubt that they would have the funk. Someone in the other thread suggested that it could be a Leonia species, which seems likely. I'm not so sure which one though.
Could it be this: Posoqueria Latifolia
Unripe passion fruit? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_fruit_(fruit)
Did you dare to eat it? If so what does it taste like?



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