Meet the rose apple: a delicious, lightly sweet, crisp fruit the size of a plum with the taste and perfume of a rose. 

Around the tropical world, rose apples are mostly eaten out-of-hand by children. They are seldom marketed.

Wally planted two trees a few years ago and now we are enjoying their white, cheerleader pom-pom flowers, and their rosey-scented fruit. Wally made a long pole with a hook on the end for picking the ripe fruit. The rose apples are sturdy enough to survive the fall to the ground. Rarely does one make the bucket. They are consumed as quick as we pick them. They are so light and tasty that you feel good even after eating your fill of them.