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Love these. They taste like lollies.
What in tarnation
Mangosteen
Who made the bluesimmon
I totally read this as "NTFS" and thought this was going to be a joke about shitty file systems.
Few years ago I found medlars (German: Mispel) in my local grocery store. Had never seen them before. They look somewhat like apricots but taste like a mix of other fruits. Really tasty for a not so popular fruit. It's cool to make such a discovery. :)
ah yes, the openarse
I recommend checking out Weird Explorer if you're interested in learning about new and weird fruits.
Not affiliated with them, but if anyone has money to throw at interesting fruit, I got a box of assorted fruit from the Miami Fruit Company for Christmas and it was pretty cool to have weird fruits to munch on for a few days.
There may be other companies doing the same thing maybe with a better assortment or cheaper, but that's the one I know off the top of my head.
The snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
Every apple tree that's not grafted is like a new fruit tree
So what are they? My best guesses clockwise from the top:
- Cherry???
- Yangmei/Chinese bayberry
- Apple? But with pink flesh for some reason
- peach? But color is strange
- Some type of persimmon but they're not normally that blue color, so it may be a less common Diospyros species.
Reverse image search I found somewhere saying they're Grenadine apples. But there are several types that are pink in the middle. My personal favorite apple ever are Lucy Glo which are also pink π©·
Persimmon can be blue, but that picture is edited and over-saturated. They're darker and have a powder coat, like blueberries. Wouldn't be surprised if the apple picture was also edited, but they can have pink flesh.
I've eaten that apple and it actually looks like that.
So I wonder if maybe that blue ~~oran berry~~ persimmon has maybe been bred to be bluer?
I've never seen a blue Japanese persimmon but maybe it varies due to variety.
Sweet cherry, kaki, mulberry, peach(?) and apple(??)
Oops I meant clockwise.
I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!
I'm not a plant person but I do make my own dyes and pigments from organics. One of the ingredients I use to precipitate the pigment, or as a mordant, which can change the colour, is aluminum sulphate - also used as plant fertilizer to raise soil acidity.
The chemicals that produce colour in plants are super sensitive to PH, there's a plant based paint company, I think in Europe somewhere, that makes everything from green to red to blue out of just red cabbage.
I don't know if that's what's happening here, but it is indeed super neat.
Is that so?
It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as βblueβ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as Iβm concerned thatβs pretty blue!
What is that big blueberry?
Looks like a big blueberry to me
Looks like a blue persimmon of some sort. Never seen one either.