The hala fruit is a large and edible fruit found in Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, Pacific Islands, and Hawaii. It comes from a tree known as the hala fruit tree or the Tahitian screw pine. This tree can grow up to 14 meters tall and has a spiny trunk that can be 5 to 11 meters wide.
The hala fruit itself is quite big, reaching up to 30 centimeters in length. It is made up of many segments called keys or cones, which are attached together by a core. Each segment is about 20 centimeters long and contains the tasty pulp of the fruit.
To eat the hala fruit, you need to remove some of the segments with a tool like a hammer to make it easier to get to the sweet pulp inside. The outer edges of the segments are green and fibrous. Once you pull out a segment, you can chew on the inner end to squeeze out the delicious pulp to enjoy.
