durriam - sorry don't know how to spell it -

is a fruit about the size of a coconut. Its casing has sharp spines and the smell of the fruit is apparently foul - rotten onions I think it was described to me the other day? It is so distinctive people can smell it on you if you have even walked under the tree. One of the Rotary guys on Saturday bought two of the fruits - about K10 each - and it is a delicacy in the Indonesian, Thai and Filipino - I think - cultures. Amin had to scrub his hands thoroughly to get the smell out.
Larry got his boys to break open a cocoa fruit - about the size and shape of a mango. The cocoa seeds - about 20 of them the size of peanuts - are surrounded by pulp which has a pleasant tart taste and it is the seeds which are roasted for cocoa. How do you get the idea that a seed surrounded by tart pulp has a chocolate (anything but tart) taste if you roast it?
They were exporting kava on Friday. The Fijians use it for cultural drink but this export -the mature roots of the kava bush - was going to Hawaii for a natural medicine with similar properties to prozac I think it was.
Mangastine was another new fruit - passionfruit coloured but with a lychee pod inside. I think?