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04-12-2007, 05:13 PM
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Trying to ID a mysterious fruit
In message , "David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)" writes Ophelia wrote: Sacha wrote: On 3/12/07 17:00, in article , "Mike...." wrote: Following up to (Nick Maclaren) wrote: "Some sort of japonica", in normal usage, can mean only one of the Chaenomeles. Japonica as the name of a group of plants means that and nothing else. are there not various "japanese" quinces? I understood the meaning to be that. I had an ormamental one in the garden for a time. Japanese quinces are usually understood to be Chaenomeles and then there are named varieties of that. AFAIK, you can make jelly from them. Cydonia is the true quince with the large, golden, roughly pear-shaped fruit - these are real beauties when mature trees but they're not the 'mysterious fruit' I'm trying to ID. All this sounds so exotic to me. I tend to grow apples, plums, blackberries, rhubarb and blackcurrants. We do eat them and I cook with them. I suppose it is because it is what I grew up with  I do try unknownfruits but somehow I can't get to grips with them. I had fun trying to ID nisperos in English- as I only ever knew them by the spanish name. It's loquat, but the Italian nespole (that's what they were called in a market when we bought them in Rome) translates as medlar fruit, which I don't think is the same thing- though related IIRC? One fruit I particularly like but don't see much in the UK shops is grenadilla (is there an English name?). Divine! Lidl (of all places!) was selling them a while back... We don't have a Lidl near here, although they have just opened an Aldi in North Finchley. Are they similar in what they sell, please? -- June Hughes |
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