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Quince

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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Tindora

Tindora, or coccinia grandis, is a tropical vine grown for its small edible cucumber-like gourds, each about the size of a little finger, which are eaten immature and green, or mature and deep red. The plant’s young shoots and leaves are also eaten as greens.
Tindora is also known variously as tondli or kundsru or dondakaya [...]