Saba senegalensis - ripe fruit pulp whole

Description:

Description: English: One ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree with the interior fruit pulp removed in its entirety. 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. This fruit pulp easily pulls apart in discrete sections that contain one seed per section. Very, very tart fruit pulp, usually boiled first without extracting the seeds, with added sugar before eating. Called 'madd' in Senegal (also spelled as 'mad' - names vary between languages). Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.