of course @mamuang! We had a huge tree in the boondocks. Difficult to climb as the trunk was large, and the fruit bearing branches were wispy thin. It is actually called manila tamarind by some. Home depot sells it sometimes and is named as is: guamuchil.
you’re right, you’d have to think of it as a nutty produce, and not as a fruity produce. Some varieties are overly-nutty with pronounced bitterness, while some are quite sweet. May also depend on climate conditions around maturity of pods
muntingia is one of those trees which need further scientific scrutiny due to its ability to bear fruit growing on rock crevices. It may be a tree but it has epiphytic abilities like orchids, amazingly able to extract nutrients out of solid rocks and hardly any soil. I sometimes suspect it can extract nutrients out of thin air, lol! Perhaps nitrogen.
orchids do grow on rocks and bark, but orchids grow very slowly. Muntingia grows remarkably fast in the same conditions and even bears fruit.
lol! pineapples are tillandsia cousins. The first bioengineering lab to genetically modify pineapples to perform such high wire circus acts and bear fruits deserves a nobel imo
definitely takes “vertical farming” to a whole new level