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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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.