Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Strange Fruits

I stumbled across this article about strange tropical fruits today. Some of my favorite unusual fruits include pomegranate, aprium, persimmon, mango, and plantain. What about you?
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  • 15 comments
fayanora

fayanora

November 23 2009, 03:22:48 UTC 11 years ago

I love pomegranate juice, but I can't eat fresh poms - they're too much work! First you have to peel this tough skin, then every single fruit is basically more seed than fruit. WAY too much work to go to.

Haven't tried persimmon yet, want to. Same for plantains. I had mango once and wasn't impressed, but that was ages ago when I was still a kid, so I might try it again sometime. Did you know that mangoes have three sexes: male, female, and hermaphrodite? It's only the hermaphrodites that make the tasty fruit, and farmers can't tell which is which until they start to flower.

I like star fruit, too.

I once tried some kind of fruit with prickly hairs in its skin. Wasn't that great, and I had its hairs stuck in my hands for days afterward. Didn't hurt exactly, but it was annoying and worrisome. I think it had "cactus" in its name, but I don't think it actually came from cacti. But the prickly hairs are probably where it got the name.
fayanora

PS

fayanora

November 23 2009, 03:25:57 UTC 11 years ago

Forgot to add, it took me a week to get half a pomegranate eaten. Then I just gave up on the rest.
ysabetwordsmith

Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

November 23 2009, 03:58:52 UTC 11 years ago

>>Did you know that mangoes have three sexes: male, female, and hermaphrodite? It's only the hermaphrodites that make the tasty fruit, and farmers can't tell which is which until they start to flower.<<

Do you have a reference for that? The links I'm finding indicate that male and hermaphrodite flowers occur together, and there aren't any pure female flowers.
fayanora

Re: Thoughts

fayanora

November 23 2009, 04:21:02 UTC 11 years ago

Sorry, I know I posted the link to Twitter, but damned if I can find it. :-( Don't remember where I read it originally.