Sorry for not posting the past few days, I've been in a funk.
I'll catch up today, posting every now and then when I'm on work breaks.
So, for todays first fruit I have monstera deliciosa. Often grown as a house plant, this plant is usually malnourished and never able to properly grow.
They're partial epiphytes (grow on other plants) and usually become massive! The common name is swiss cheese plant.
The lower leaves tend to be full, and the higher up they go the more holes they develop. Maximizing the efficiency of photosynthesis.
The fruits are said to be divine, but there's one problem with them. If you try and eat them early they'll give you painful oxalic "burns" (it's actually tiny sharp chemical crystals cutting you!). The fruit ripens and falls apart. You can only eat the parts that are falling off, or you'll have a bad time.
First off is Vasconcellea goudotiana.
This rather uncommon fellow is from Columbia, and isn't really cultivated much.
Some are tasty, but most are just straight inedible.
And then there's carica weberbaueri, or "mountain papaya". Now this one isn't common in cultivation either, but is used for a interesting hybrid that I'll share in a later post.
This is such a cool cool thread!!! I LUV fruit though am only somewhat familiar with some of these! Peaches are my favs. Always have been! Im all for trying new things though!!!!
This thread makes me feel like I've been living a lie, thinking that I was aware of most of the fruits in the world I never knew fruit could look so varied and cool! Half these pictures look like alien fruit to me, it's wild. 10/10 thread
This thread makes me feel like I've been living a lie, thinking that I was aware of most of the fruits in the world I never knew fruit could look so varied and cool! Half these pictures look like alien fruit to me, it's wild. 10/10 thread
These are kadsura, a vine native to a large chunk of Asia. They've just recently gained the spotlight in modern agriculture. But, for a very long time they've been harvested from the wild and cultivated by small villages.
Folk lore says they were eaten by ogres so... equip your gear cause you're fighting the ogres! Maybe the doctor coming back to help would be a good thing...
These are kadsura, a vine native to a large chunk of Asia. [...] Folk lore says they were eaten by ogres so... equip your gear cause you're fighting the ogres!
Here's that fruit I mentioned before. When you get standard papayas and hybridize them with mountain papayas you make this, the babaco. It has a much higher papain content, so if you think that papayas taste nasty don't eat this! To some people a papaya tastes like tropical heaven, to others, vomit. That's papain.
Dragonfruit are pretty cool.
They're epiphytes and hang down to produce fruit. They're usually grown with a trellis and a frame at the top. The cactus will branch over the frame, hang down, and produce fruit. The flowers only last one night, and are extremely fragrant.
There's quite a few species, but only three are commonly seen in stores.
I was reading about the pawpaw recently (because it is featured in Cozy Grove), and apparently it is a fruit the grows natively in the eastern part of North America. Apparently people say it's a cross between a mango and a banana? It's supposed to be creamy inside and have a really nice flavor. And there are different cultivars which each have different flavors. I'm sad because I only learned about then after I moved back to the West Coast from the East Coast, where apparently they are more common. They don't really sell them in stores because they are fragile and smush easily or something, so you have to go pick one off a tree or something to hand carry them back to eat it! I think I read some article in the NY Times about pawpaw trees you could find in Brooklyn, perhaps about a pawpaw aficionado who had planted a bunch of different varieties in his yard space.
Unfortunately I'm very far from NYC now, but if I ever go back during pawpaw season, I will probably have to find one to try!
I was reading about the pawpaw recently (because it is featured in Cozy Grove), and apparently it is a fruit the grows natively in the eastern part of North America. Apparently people say it's a cross between a mango and a banana? It's supposed to be creamy inside and have a really nice flavor. And there are different cultivars which each have different flavors. I'm sad because I only learned about then after I moved back to the West Coast from the East Coast, where apparently they are more common. They don't really sell them in stores because they are fragile and smush easily or something, so you have to go pick one off a tree or something to hand carry them back to eat it! I think I read some article in the NY Times about pawpaw trees you could find in Brooklyn, perhaps about a pawpaw aficionado who had planted a bunch of different varieties in his yard space.
Unfortunately I'm very far from NYC now, but if I ever go back during pawpaw season, I will probably have to find one to try!
Yes yes! They are a relative of my favorite fruit Genus Annona! I've had a few, they're not true to seed and have a weird banana custard flavor when good.
They offshoot via suckers and there's a small group of farmers developing cultivars. They've been hard at work for years.
You stumbled across one of the fruits I study and I couldn't be happier!
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Guess I'll post some deadly poison I gathered the other week.
Bittersweet Nightshade. And no... I haven't let the temptation get to me. These are deadly and *WILL* kill you if ingested and untreated.
Usually they just kill livestock, but every so often they get people. It's the reason tomatoes were feared for so long!
And, tomatoes are the cousins of these fellas! Same with eggplants, peppers, and potatoes. True potato seeds are actually really cool. The fruits tend to be a deep purple color and are deadly... yeetus deletus level of poison.
Most people never see potato fruits because they require a specific climate to set fruit.
I was reading about the pawpaw recently (because it is featured in Cozy Grove), and apparently it is a fruit the grows natively in the eastern part of North America. Apparently people say it's a cross between a mango and a banana? It's supposed to be creamy inside and have a really nice flavor. And there are different cultivars which each have different flavors. I'm sad because I only learned about then after I moved back to the West Coast from the East Coast, where apparently they are more common. They don't really sell them in stores because they are fragile and smush easily or something, so you have to go pick one off a tree or something to hand carry them back to eat it! I think I read some article in the NY Times about pawpaw trees you could find in Brooklyn, perhaps about a pawpaw aficionado who had planted a bunch of different varieties in his yard space.
Unfortunately I'm very far from NYC now, but if I ever go back during pawpaw season, I will probably have to find one to try!
Oh yeah! They make you seriously sick if picked early, so they can only be eaten when actually ripe off the tree.
They also have chemicals that give you brain lesions! There's an extremely interesting study about this, but Annona Muricata is the reason (linked to parkinsons in Brazil)
There is so much misinformation about this, but do not eat Asimina Triloba (pawpaw) cooked or dried, they will make you vomit and go to the doctor (or ER depending).
The chemicals known to cause lesions aren't water soluble and the few studies done are not only biased, but use extracts that are far more potent than we'd ever consume in a short term.
I never knew fruit could look so varied and cool! Half these pictures look like alien fruit to me, it's wild. 10/10 thread
