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ID on bottled Chinese fruit
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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ID on bottled Chinese fruit
To me, they look like little pomes. If they were North American, I'd
say hawthorn fruits. M. Reed 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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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. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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I agree about the possibility of it being a pome. But any hawthorn I
have seen in Europe and Australia has fruits the size of a pea - not an olive. On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:23:18 -0600, monique wrote: To me, they look like little pomes. If they were North American, I'd say hawthorn fruits. M. Reed 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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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. I agree that it looks like a pome fruit. The leaves in the picture are lobed, like many Crataegus spp (hawthorns). I don't think it was a stone removed -- more like the whole core punched out, as is often done with pickled crabapples. Note that there are literally hundreds of species and hybrids in Malus (apples), Pyrus (pears), Crataegus (hawthorns) and other pome genera, and some may have been selected for larger fruit in some area of China. Note also that olives vary a lot in size... ;-) Cripes, it could be an unusually meaty rosehip or a little known type of loquat or a Chaenomeles quince. Perhaps you can find someone to translate the Chinese for you, but common names are no more scientifically accurate in Chinese than in European languages. My first thought, before I looked at the picture, was jujubes (Zizyphus sp), which are called red dates or thorn dates in Chinese although they are completely unrelated to dates or AFAIK, pome fruits. Let us know if you find out. |
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