Mountain apples is an alternative name for Malay apples, the crisp, bell-shaped fruit of Syzygium malaccense grown across the tropics of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Eaten fresh, they are juicy and mildly sweet with a rose-like aroma, and they are also juiced, pickled, or cooked into preserves. The waxy skin ranges from white to deep red depending on variety. Like other tropical fruits, they are perishable after harvest and benefit from cool handling and quick marketing. The name reflects their cultivation in upland orchards in parts of the region, though they also thrive in lowland home gardens.