posted 5 months ago
I'm in Brazil where a lot of these funky fruits seem to come from.
Looking at the fruit, there is something called the peanut butter fruit (Bunchosia armeniaca), but to me the leaves look different, generally they're bigger. have a search online and see what I mean.
The body of your tree looks for all the world like a pitanga (surinam cherry) but the fruit are definitely not.
Another fruit tree from this area with very similar leaves is Eugenia hiemalis, but the fruit have a little calyx kind of thing on the bottom. The fruit are supposed to be brown to black, but I'm not sure what color they are when they aren't quite ripe, if they are red at any point. The fruit shape seems right. They are used in traditional medicine and are apparently quite bitter.
I'm in zone 9b and these fruit are both way too tender for the frost we just got.
PS it might help to know how big the fruit are. I'm making assumptions about leaf size when I truly don't know how big leaves or fruit are!