Cat fruit, botanically Syzygium zeylanicum, or Poochapazham, as it is called in the southern states, is an easy-to-grow fruit plant with white coloured fruits that have a sweet-sour taste.
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Cat fruit blooms in February and March. Cat fruit flowers have a cat's hair-like appearance, hence the name. The cat fruit plant is easy to grow.
Cat fruit belongs to the same family as water apples, and it has a similar sweet-sour taste.
The cat fruit plant grows to a height of up to 12 metres but is often much shorter. Flowers look very much like those of a water apple. Propagation is done through seedlings and grafted plants. The latter produces fruits much earlier.
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