Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Nature Note From Mhow: Have you ever eaten t...
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Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Nature Note From Mhow: Have you ever eaten the Jungle Jalebi?
Photographs taken from March to May 2008.
Camera: SONY DSC H9.
Taxonomic Name: Pithecellobium dulce
Common Names: Madras Thorn, Manila Tamarind, Monkeypod, Guamachili, Kamatsile (Filipino), Opiuma (Hawaiian).
According to the Wikipedia article on this tree it is a native of Central and Northern South America.
Besides the common names given above Pradip Krishen's Trees Of Delhi, a copy of which is always on my study table, gives me the names Vilaiti Imli and Dakhani Babool for this tree in Hindi.
The jungle jalebi was a childhood favourite during the years I spent in Mhow in the late sixties and early seventies. Every summer we had to break a few by throwing stones and then fight for the tasty fruit when they fell to the ground.
We have a tree in our house now. It is the rejuvented part of an older tree and is doing well.
These pictures are taken over a period of almost two months as the flowers became fruits which in turn ripened.
The large leaves one can see to the left in the pic above are those of the lantana.
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Hi Q... Looks like we had similar childhoods..
Jungli Jalebi and childhood are inseparable for many of us... thanks for the visit and the comment...
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dear dev,
as a kid prone to roaming in the middle of the hot summers ,uncaring of the hot "loo" the dusty dry wind that rages across most of north central India,this was one of my fav trees.The number of fights and broken windows ,and consequent painful posterior( my mom still has formidable strength in her hands btw), were all worth it.
thanks for pushing the refresh/reload button.A very good photo blog.
Q
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Never knew it was called Jungle Jalebi...you sent me spinningt back into my childhood. I used to love this stuff !! Great snaps...Thank you Dev. have been reading all your blogs...
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i spent my summer vacation every year at manpur - a village on AB road further down from Mhow and remeber scouting surrounding areas for this jungle jalebi with my cousins.
thanks for reviving those childhood memories
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wow
i have always loved jungle jalebi's
wen i was in indore....i used to eat them...
wowwwwwww
u brought the memories back...
Regards,
Ekta
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Nope, DVK, never seen this fruit before, dont know its Malayalam name. Looks delicious though!
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Hi Dev, Thanks for the invite. Though a long time Chennai vasi I am yet to taste the Kodukkapuli as mentioned by some bloggers.May be it is just raw tamarind. Stunning photos.Enjoyed the photos as well as the infromation.
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I am wondering why an advertisement for the Envirolet Waterless Toilet always appears next to your Jungle Jalebi blog. Is there some property of the Jungle Jalebi fruit which you have not mentioned in your blog? The Wikipedia article states that the bark of the Jungle Jalebi tree can be used to treat diarrhea. Is this a case of the bark supplying the antidote to the fruit? -- GF
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Thanks for this posting. The photographs were very good. I have eaten them when I used to be in Vadodara. In Tamil it is called 'Kodukkapuli'.
May be one of these days, I reach over to Mhow to have a handful of these !!!
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Dev sir
Thanks for your note otherwise I would have missed this wonderful blog with lovely pictures.
Yes I know about Jungle Jalebi. We called it Vilayti Imali and I am still very fond of it.
I hardly see it in Delhi though. I remember eating it at Mandavgarh.Your blog made me nostalgic.
Saw the beautiful titles of your other blogs will check them siin.
keep posting
Nupur
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