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Old 01-04-2006, 01:51 AM posted to sci.bio.botany
Stewart Robert Hinsley
 
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Default ID on bottled Chinese fruit

In message , monique
writes
To me, they look like little pomes. If they were North American, I'd
say hawthorn fruits.

M. Reed


Pome. China. Free associates. Loquat (Eriobotyra japonica). Images
online don't look too bad a match, but tend more to the yellow or orange
than to the red. Taste (per Google) is said to vary.

Richard Wright wrote:
Can somebody please identify the fruit contained in the bottle
illustrated at
http://www.box.net/public/static/490zvq1gf6.jpg
It tastes almost exactly like the European gooseberry Ribes
uva-crispa, but clearly is not.
The fruit is the size of an olive and, as the photo shows, seems to
have had a stone removed.
It is a product of China.


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