| Name | Mamoncillo (also Spanish Lime) |
| Peak season | June-August |
| Uses | hand-fruit, juice |
| Vegetation | tree |
| Scientific Name | Melicocca bijuga |
| Spanish Name | mamón |
Spanish lime is a small, round fruit that grows in bunches. The green, smooth rind protects a round seed that is wrapped in a yellowish, juicy pulp. Mamoncillo can be eaten as hand-fruit, simply sucking the pulp out of the rind (which is very easy). A delicious juice can also be made from mamoncillo. This juice is great against stomach aches, but one should be careful drinking it: spilling mamoncillo juice on clothes will result in a brown spots that can hardly be removed.
The tree of this fruit is large (20-30 meters) and it grows throughout almost whole Nicaragua in patios and at farms. Fruits are mostly harvested from June to August.
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