Muntingia calabura produces a few flowers each day throughout the year. The flowers are usually borne in fascicles of two or three, and within each fascicle, four to nine days separate the sequential ...

Why would I recommend a tree that's short-lived, brittle in the wind and sensitive to low temperatures? Because it's a pretty, fast-growing, small tree that bears clusters of delicious, half-inch-wide ...

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The author is the Editor, special features for The Economic Times. When it was planted in the garden, we were told it was called Singapore cherry (Muntingia calabura) and was useful for growing fast.

PETALING JAYA: At just 16 years old, Filipino student scientist Maria Isabel Layson has discovered potential anti-diabetic components in the aratiles fruit (Muntingia calabura). Known in the ...

Sixteen-year-old Maria Isabel Layson from the Iloilo National High School has discovered that the Jamaican cherry, widely known in the Philippines as aratiles, can potentially cure type 2 diabetes.

MANILA, Philippines — Aratiles or Aratilis is the Filipino term for a fruit called Muntingia calabura, also known as Kerson Fruit or Jamaican Cherry. The fruit has a Cherry-like flavor. Red and round, ...