It is a tropical and evergreen tree and can grow to a height of 10 to 15 metres
Its flowers are small and in a cluster.
The fruit is covered with hair-like soft spiky leathery skin. Its name comes from Malay for hair (rambut).
The fruit will change from green to yellow and then red when it is fully ripens.
However, the fruit can be eaten when the skin is yellow.
When you peels the fruit skin, you see a translucent white flesh pulp with a woody seed.
The flesh is usually sweet but sometimes sweet with a sourish taste.
It is not advisable to climb the rambutan tree to pluck the fruits because the branches breaks quite easily.
You use a pole with a cutting tool at the end of pole to reach and cut the twig before a whole bunch of rambutans.
Rambutan trees outside Blk 543 Pasir Ris St 51
Flowers
Small flowers in a cluster
Fruits
Young green unripe fruits
Young unripe fruits and still very green in colour.
bunch of ripening rambutans
ripe rambutans on a tree
Yellow skin rambutans.
ripe red rambutans
Peeled rambutans w translucent white pulp and also a woody seed left after eating the pulp.
