Macopa | Bell-Shaped Fruit In The Philippines
MACOPA – In this topic, we are going to know about the bell-shaped fruit widely-eaten in the country known as macopa.
As mentioned above, it is a bell-shaped fruit that is widely eaten in the Philippines. Its skin is pink in color when unripe, and shiny red in color when ripe. It also has a white flesh.
The scientific or binomial name of this fruit is Syzygium samarangense. Its former binomial names include Eugenia javanica and Syzygium malaccense.
Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The term is a combination of the Greek syn, meaning ‘together‘, and zygon, meaning ‘yoke‘, hence, it means ‘yoked together‘.
It is also known as Malay apple in English due to its origin and abundance on the Malay peninsula, which is south of the Philippines, according to TagalogLang. It also has a Chinese name which is liánwù (蓮霧)
Other names include wax apple, Java apple, Semarang rose-apple, wax jambu, and Jambakka
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