Sorry, bilby, just saw your comment here. I looked this up in the OED (finally) and found this:
"The juicy, cream-like fruit of a plant found in Sierra Leone. The name has been applied to an apocynaceous plant, Roupellia grata, which was believed to yield the fruit." Sounds like it isn't custard apple after all.
"...stalls with fruit and vegetables of every kind, brilliant in the morning sun: plantains, bananas, papaws, guavas, oranges, limes, melons, pineapples, pigeon-peas, ockra, cream-fruit, sweet-sops, coco-nuts; and close-woven baskets full of rice, maize, millet, grains of Paradise, as well as yams and cassava and some sugar-cane..." --P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 203
Got it. I think it goes on one of my lists anyway, which is a shorter solution than a field trip to Sierra Leone. Thanks c_b.
Sorry, bilby, just saw your comment here. I looked this up in the OED (finally) and found this:
"The juicy, cream-like fruit of a plant found in Sierra Leone. The name has been applied to an apocynaceous plant, Roupellia grata, which was believed to yield the fruit." Sounds like it isn't custard apple after all.
Custard apple?
Don't know what this is, but it sure sounds good.
"...stalls with fruit and vegetables of every kind, brilliant in the morning sun: plantains, bananas, papaws, guavas, oranges, limes, melons, pineapples, pigeon-peas, ockra, cream-fruit, sweet-sops, coco-nuts; and close-woven baskets full of rice, maize, millet, grains of Paradise, as well as yams and cassava and some sugar-cane..."
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 203