Ximenia americana, commonly known as hog plum or false sandalwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Olacaceae. It's a semi-scandent shrub or small tree. The plant is gathered from the wild, and also cultivated in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, N and NE Australia, Africa and the Americas, for the edible fruits and seeds (raw or pickled) and a myriad of other uses. The tree is also grown as an ornamental as well as to provide shade or to be used as a hedge. Fruit - eaten raw or made into preserves, pickles and fermented into a beer. Looking like a yellow plum, the fruit has a juicy pulp with an acid-sweet, aromatic, almond-like flavour.
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