Manguelas

It is not the blue flower I am referring to, it’s the green fruit.

The green fruit is a product of breeding mango and sereguelas together thus called manguelas. The fruit is larger than a sereguelas but smaller than the smallest mango.

Unripe manguelas taste as sour as a mango but a mature fruit can be as tasteless as sayote or succulent as both mangoes and seregulas combined together.

This tree does not grow as big as a mango or sinuous as a sereguelas because when it reaches to just about one and a half feet, it already starts bearing fruit all-year round.

 

Green Tambis A Lusty Fruit

My mom has a five-year old green tambis grown in the backyard. This does not superimpose the fact that she has also grown a ten year old white tambis in our front porch. Both are a contrasting appeal to the pink tambis that our neighbor also grow in their front yard.

The green tambis in the backyard deserves more attention than my neighbors pink tambis and our white tambis in the front porch. The latter has suffered our visitors and neighbors lusty appetite and the former utter disregard for its regularity. What good served my mom over her choice for planting the green tambis in the backyard is that it is free from the eyes and dripping mouths of my neighbors.

Last summer the green tambis bore a profusion of fruit which made my mom proud and happy. The neighbors were also happy. The overabundance supplied my neighbors with a stomachful of my mom’s green, luscious and sweet tambis. And well, not just my neighbors, the lustful fruit has supplemented the diet of my mom’s incessantly hungry goats.

The lesson learned here is to plant all the luscious fruit in the backyard and the regulars in the front yard. With our white tambis, our rich-green avocado, apple mangoes, and carabao mangoes suffers the same fate in the front yard. They are not regulars because they are as lusty as the green tambis in the backyard.

By the way if tambis is to the Visayans as makopa is to the Tagalog’s, what is it to English?