The fruit may also be stewed, preserved, or made into jams and jellies. A fruit has from 1 to 15 pendulous seeds in each rib or segment, depending upon the completeness of pollination. The clusters of fragrant whitish to rose-colored flowers are borne in the leaf axils. They are about five-eighths inch across. There are five petals and 10 stamens in at least two whorls alternating long and short, five without anthers.
Honey bees visit the flowers freely.
Fla. State Hort. NAND, D. 1971.