Polyalthia cerasoides.

Botanical name: 

Polyalthia cerasoides Benth. & Hook. f. Anonaceae.

East Indies. The fruits, cherry-shaped and dark red, are eaten by the natives but are astringent. The plant has black berries, fleshy, smooth and of an acid-sweet taste.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.