Bullet-tree

Bullet-tree, or BULLY-TREE (Minusops balata), a sapotaceous tree found in Guiana, and valued for its wood, which is solid, heavy, close-grained, and durable, and also for its delicious cherry-like fruit. It yields balata-gum, a valuable substitute for india-rubber. The name is somewhat vaguely shared with other fruit-bearing congeners. Thus Bumelia retusa is the Bastard Bully-tree, and B. ingens the Black Bully-tree, while Lucuma marmosa, of which the fruit is called the marmalade, is sometimes called Jamaica Bully-tree.