1. A small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
   "The Ceylon gooseberry's thorny branches protected its sweet fruit";
   - ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa

Type of: tree

Part of: Dovyalis, genus Dovyalis

Encyclopedia: Ceylon gooseberry