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Posted by on 22 Oct 2008 at 9:30 am under Fruit
Native to warm-temperate Caucasus region of southwest Asia (Georgia, Iran, Armenia), the quince is a small deciduous tree related to apples and pears that produces a bright golden yellow pome frut.
Ripening in late autumn when the green fruit changes to its almost fluorescent-yellow hue with a hard flesh that is strongly perfumed.
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Posted by on 18 Jun 2007 at 9:50 pm under Fruit
The fruit of a woody climbing shrub, guarana is a round orange-red capsule about 1 inch in diameter. When ripe, the capsule splits partially open, revealing a black seed covered with white flesh only on its innermost side. The edible portion, the seed with the white flesh removed, is rich in caffeine.
Guarana is one of [...]
Posted by on 10 Apr 2007 at 7:18 pm under Fruit, Plants
Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, is a deciduous tree that can be found growing in dry woodlands, limestone glades, prairies, thickets, abandoned fields and along roadsides.
In spring, tiny yellow bell-shaped flowers adorn newly leafed-out branches. The foliage is dark green and glossy above, paler below. It turns buttery-yellow in autumn, infrequently reddish-purple. One to two-inch berries change [...]
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