A local Penangite kindly gave me some fruit from a tree in his garden this week.

• It’s the size of a large orange
• It’s yellow like a lemon
• It’s soft to hold like a peach
• It has a single seed inside
• You eat the soft flesh with a spoon
• It tastes something like a cross between melon, papaya and mango

It's delicious, but I have no idea what it is. Can someone help identify it? See photo.
Thanks.

JC3

It's a Papamema

Nah, sorry, heat has affected my brain. I shall ask my learned friends. Interesting.

I like the name Papamena. But I think I've just found it.
It's an Pouteria Caimito, an Abiu.

Here's an extract I found on the Sub-Tropical Fruit Club of Qld Inc website:

Abiu is an attractive, bright yellow fruit with a sweet, caramel flavoured, creamy-white pulp. It is produced on a small tree which grows well and flowers and fruits prolifically in north Queensland and around Darwin. The fruit is available 8 months of the year in Australia and has a good potential for commercial development.

Abiu originates from the Amazon basin in South America where it may have been cultivated for some thousands of years by the Indians of the region. However, only in very recent years has it been 'discovered' and grown commercially outside its home range.

It is grown to a limited extent in Florida, USA, in northern Australia and two years ago in Malaysia. A grower group in Malaysia introduced two cultivars from north Queensland and has successfully grown and marketed the fruit in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. The fruit was renamed “Wong Kum Kuo” which means Emperor’s Golden Fruit and it was very well received by consumers in the region.

The extract above dates from 2006, so the fruit was probably introduced here in Malaysia around twelve years ago.

And if it's not an Abiu, what is it?

JC3

If it wasn't for the colour, it sounds like a large sapodilla.

Looks like a ciku fruit

I think that's the Malay word for sapodilla, isn't it?

But can you get them this colour? Usually brownish, at least the ones I have seen.

Don't know tbh

It seems to have anti-gravity properties

A friend also reckons it's sapodilla / ciku. Apparently there are different coloured ones here.

I agree with JC3, and I also remember seeing these fruits being sold in Brazil.
A search on Google divulges that the Ciku and the Abiu are quite closely related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouteria

You will see both when you Google 'Pouteria pictures'

Don't get the Wong Kum Kuo IVV!

Is that like the Wong Wei Yup, JC?

The picture looks fine to me...but wait...I'm in Bali... south of the equator.
So I'm Wong Wei Yup but, since we Chinese use local names, you can call me Mohammed Wassup Nordoon.

Ha Ha, very good Davita.
I have found just the house for you...

JC3

Darn it...so you know where I live.
Btw... did you see the swimming pool I'd installed round the back...still haven't figured how to get the water into it...didn't think that problem thru'......