Spondias cytherea), known commonly as April plum, is a tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit.

Over several weeks, the fruit fall to the ground while still green and hard, then turn golden-yellow as they ripen.

It was brought to Jamaica in 1782, and it is cultivated in Panama, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Brazil, Costa Rica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, St. Lucia, and eastern Sucre in Venezuela.

The United States Department of Agriculture received seeds from Liberia in 1909, but it did not become a popular crop in the US.

The fruit is also widely grown in Somalia's agriculture belt, probably introduced during the colonial times preceding 1960.

The flesh is golden in color, very juicy, vaguely sweet, but with a hint of tart acidity.

"[3] In Indonesia and Malaysia, it is eaten with shrimp paste, a thick, black, salty-sweet sauce called hayko in the Southern Min dialect of Chinese.

In Suriname and Guyana, the fruit is dried and made into a spicy chutney, mixed with garlic and peppers.