<p>Widely planted and naturalized from tropical Asia.  Known as Mazapan in Mesoamerica.  Photo from near Pereira, Colombia.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/92252798@N07">Dick Culbert</a> from Gibsons, B.C., Canada
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