A couple of the trees in our backyard had ripe fruit on them for a couple of weeks. This particular tree has is the acerola (ah-ser-ROW-la). The fruit are about the size of crab apples and have a couple of large seeds inside, and are sour like crab apples. According to our gardener, the acerola is supposed to be very high in Vitamin C and very healthy. Since we didn't have fresh cranberries to make cranberry salad for Thanksgiving dinner, I substituted acerola, and it tasted pretty good. The texture wasn't quite right because the acerola are not as dry as cranberries.
While the fruit was ripe, we received daily morning visits from the family of tamarins that lives in our neighborhood. They are also particularly fond of bananas and readily eat banana from my hand. There are five members in this group, two are juveniles. The bravest male no longer has a tail.
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