The juicy, cream-like fruit of a plant found in Sierra Leone. The name has been applied to an apocynaceous plant, Roupellia grata, which was believed to yield the fruit.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 214. The Cream fruit of Sierra Leone.
1882. Garden, 29 July, 86/2. Roupellia Grata … has been named Cream fruit by some botanists.
