This is a mildly sweet to sweet tasting fruit with an egg like shell. Just give it a good squeeze along the equator and it will pop open.
The flesh taste like longan and is addictive once you started :)
Warning: Crystal fruit is very heaty, more heaty than rambutan or longan. Young children should consume no more than half a dozen fruits in a day. Even an adult will feel the "heat" if he/she consumes too many fruits.
There are a few commercial species of crystal fruit. Picture below is of purple shell variety. The tree reaches the height of durian trees grown from seed with matching trunk size and lateral root spread. You will need a big vacant plot to plant this purple variety.
The green shell variety is a drawf by comparison. The tree starts to yield after two years from germination, with a trunk girth of no more than a foot, and a height of no more than three meters tall.
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