My first official duty as a worker was to help Rosanne (from Bahia - lived on the beach her whole life) pick fruits from the trees that are on the complex. I had a fruit picking pole with the wire basket at the top and filled a large container quite quickly with the `large grapefruit sized - pear shaped`fruits. Rosanne was trying to find ripe caja (a lemon sized fruit that grows on several trees around the houses. They are supposed to be yellow colored, but most of them are still green. When they fall to the ground, they often split and then ferment. You guessed it!! The little gnats and flies are thick around them. Not necessarily the best tree to be near houses. They do offer good shade as does the avocado tree.
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