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Tropical Fruit: Spanish Limes, Genips, Quenepas, MamoncillosPosted Apr 13th 2006 3:35PM by Nick VagnoniFiled under: Fruit, Caribbean, Garden Party
Growing up, I always knew this fruit as a Spanish lime. Then, a Jamaican friend came over and started calling
them genips. A few years later, a Puerto Rican friend told me they were also called quenepas. Since then, I've also
heard that they're called mamoncillos in other parts of the Caribbean. In Panama, I think they're called mamones.
Wikipedia has a page with still more names. Despite
what I still call them, they're not limes at all. Actually, they're in the same family as lychees, which makes sense
considering their similarly leathery skin. Beneath this green skin is a large seed coated in a slimy, peach colored
flesh, which actually tastes a bit like a lime. If you happen to see them in a market, be sure to get fruit with
unwrinkled, uncracked skin. The most common way of eating them is to remove the skin and suck the pulp from the seed.
However, I've also heard of soaking the peeled fruit in rum and sugar to make a drink. [Photo: Nick
Vagnoni]
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21. Does anyone know where I can find these in Utah? I've been looking all my life for them, since I ate them in Venezuela when I was 6. Please help! Thanks!
Posted at 3:38PM on Sep 28th 2007 by Andrew