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Dillenia indica

Dillenia indica
Elephant Apple

Flowering tree to 50′. Foliage large (to 1.5′ long), deep green, corrugated in texture, with slighly serrated margins, held in large whorls at ends of branches;
Flowers large, drooping, white, with many stamens forming a wheel in the center; fruit 4″ round with gooey edible (if sour) pulp tightly encased in the old flower sepals.
Fruit eaten by elephants in its native SE Asia, hence the common name.