Dialium indum, the tamarind-plum[2] or velvet tamarind,[3] is a tall, tropical, fruit-bearing tree.

It belongs to the family Fabaceae, and has small, typically grape-sized edible fruits with brown hard inedible shells.

The fruit is used as a candy-like snack food in Thailand, often dried, sugar-coated and spiced with chili.

The fruit is also very popular in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.

One smaller kind is about one inch (25 mm) long and has a reddish-brown powder lightly packed around the single seed, with a small air space within the shell.