South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  It has the taste of a _pepon_
with a flavour of musk, and in eating seems to give various pleasant - Page 163
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It Has The Taste Of A _Pepon_ With A Flavour Of Musk, And In Eating Seems To Give Various Pleasant Tastes, Sometimes Resembling A Peach, Sometimes Like A Pomegranate, And Leaves A Rich Sweet In The Month Like New Honeycombs.

Under the skin it has a pulp like that of a peach, and within that are other fruits like soft chesnuts, which when roasted eat much like them.

This is certainly one of the finest fruits I ever met with. There is another fruit called _Apolanda_, which is worthy of being mentioned. The tree grows to the height of a man, having not above four or five leaves hanging from certain slips, each leaf being so large that it is sufficient to cover a man entirely from rain or the heat of the sun. In the middle of each leaf rises a stalk like that of a bean, which produces flowers followed by fruit a span long, and as thick as a mans arm. These fruits are gathered unripe, as they become ripe in keeping. Every slip bears about two hundred fruits in a cluster. They are of a yellow colour with a very thin skin, and are most delicate eating, and very wholesome. There are three kinds of this fruit, one of which is not so pleasant or so much esteemed as the others. This tree bears fruit only once and then dies; but there rise from the ground all about the root fifty or sixty young slips which renew the life of the parent tree.

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