is native to the Central American region. In Sri Lanka and other south Asian countries, The ripe Lavulu is consumed as a dessert fruit. A number of precessed food items, such as dessert, jam, marmalade, pancakes and flour are made from the ripe fruit.As a fairly slow-growing, long-lived speices, Lavulu is also valued as an ornamental tree and used in tropical landscapes due to its compact crown and glossy leaves. The high nutritional value of the fruit may attract more interest and promote its wider cultivation in the future.