Made in South Africa, Amarula Cream Liqueur, the original Marula-based alcoholic drink, is the only cream liqueur that uses real Marula fruit. From tree to bottle, it takes over two years to create each bottle of Amarula Cream Liqueur. The key ingredient, the marula fruit, is considered one of Africas botanical treasures. This exotic fruit, harvested by hand, gives Amarula Original Cream Liqueur its distinctive taste and smooth, rich texture. The marula tree (the elephant tree) grows naturally across the sub-equatorial regions of Africa alone on the planet, and this is where the magical Amarula story starts. The wild trees bear their fruit just once a year at the end of Africa’s summer, which scent attracts the elephants from the surrounding areas that come to feast on the fruit. This rare tree cannot be cultivated, and the marula fruits are only selected and hand-picked when they are perfectly ripe and yellow.