An excellent ornamental shrub.The pitomba produces bright orange-yellow fruit with soft, melting, juicy flesh with a highly aromatic slightly acid flavour.They are good eaten fresh or made into jelly and preserves.Taste comparable to an apricot.Very slow growing, hence suitable as a dwarf fruit tree.It is an attractive, slow-growing tree to 20 or 30 ft (6-9 m) high, with dense foliage.The evergreen, opposite, short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate leaves, 1 to 3 in (2.

5-7.5 cm) long, are glossy, dark-green on the upper surface, paler beneath.New growth is temporarily coated with bronze hairs on the underside.The long-stalked, 4-petalled, white flowers are borne singly in the leaf axils.Pitomba fruit plants in Kerala is now available in our farms.