Saba senegalensis - fruit pulp

Description:

Description: English: One ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree cut open to show the ripe interior fruit pulp as it is before removal. The skin of the fruit is thick and quite flexible,about.8 cm thick, with a bit of stickiness where cut. For scale: the fruit shown, somewhat average in size, was 9.5 cm in diameter, height about 10 cm. The yellow edible fruit pulp is formed into sections which are easily pulled apart from each other. One section contains one seed (not shown here, about 2 cm in length). Very tart, usually boiled without extracting the seeds, with sugar for consumption, seeds discarded during eating. Called 'madd' in Senegal ('mad' - spellings vary and names vary between languages). This one fruit had 35 fruit pulp sections, representing 35 seeds in total (seeds not shown). Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.