I gotta give it to mulberries, don’t get enough attention!
The buds of the flower Bauhinia variegata are both cooked amd used for pickles, spectacular stuff.
Huckleberries are real y’all.
Not willing to compete for food with a grizzly bear man. I’ll take your cheapest pack of frozen starwberries pls and thank you.
Appalachian area here, and more people need to know about pawpaws for sure.
Planted three paw paw saplings this spring and it looks like they’re going to make it. If all goes well, I’ll have fruit to share in ten years or so!
Apparently they will only fruit if they are pollinated by a different genetic lineage of tree, so you may need to find a different seed/sapling source if those three came from the same place.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard that. They all came from the county extension office but I have no idea if that means they came from the seeds of one plant. It might just be worth getting another one just in case.
I do my part to spread the good word about pawpaw’s here in PA. We’re somewhat towards the northern edge of where they grow, but they’re around if you know where to look, and if you have a good hippie grocery store near you they sometimes get them in (for about a week, their season is very short) this is about the time of year for them around here, maybe even a bit too late, because of work and weather I didn’t get a chance to go searching for the this year.
If/when I have some property I’m hoping to grow some trees, in the meantime I’m just kind of scattering seeds into the treeline behind my house whenever I get my hands on some. HOA can’t really say anything about it, they’re a native plant so they could conceivably just pop up there on their own. If I’m incredibly lucky maybe some trees will pop up and start bearing fruit in a decade or so whether or not I’m still in this house when it happens.
We have pawpaws in Australia, but they’re a completely different fruit; a variety of papaya that’s rounder and yellower and creamier.
Your ones look kind of like custard apples, are they that kind of thing?
My mom’s tomatoes. They taste like water but my she’s really proud of them and always beams when someone can taste that they’re home grown. So next time you’re at my moms house, make sure to ask for something with tomatoes
Duly noted
While sugar beet is hardly unknown, try Zuckerrübensirup if you’re near Germany, a black-ish sirup made from them. You can usually also get it in the Netherlands and sometimes in Denmark at least.
There are similar products in other countries, but they lack the distinct taste the German variant has that makes it such an awesome spread! And no, it has nothing to do with Marmite, which is a good thing.
Mirabella plums. Like little miniature plums, they can be quite sweet
Mulberries are awesome; they’re tasty and they’re an excellent source of dietary iron, too.
They have two things going against them, though: as fruits they’re pretty fragile, even more so than other berries; and when they’re flowering, they’re highly allergenic for a lot of people. Lots of cities actually ban growing mulberry trees within city limits because of the allergy problem.
Of stuff that grows right in my neighborhood in the Bay Area, California, I’d point out passionfruit and prickly-pears as somewhat unusual fruit.
Passionfruit vines like to grow on fences; they make trippy-looking flowers that mature into lemon-sized fruits full of tasty gooey arils around their seeds.
Prickly-pears are Opuntia cactus, which seem to do oddly well here in even rough and windy coastal areas. The same species can also be harvested for the young cactus pads, which are nopales in Spanish; skin 'em and fry 'em up and put 'em in vegetarian tacos.
I’ve been wanting to seek out a prickly pear to try. I love grilled nopales so much
Wild strawberries (Fragaria vesca). Incredibly fragrant and sweet. Regular strawberryies can’t compare.
My lawn is filled with wild strawberry but the birds eat them all and just leave me with the false strawberry.
I went to school in Hawai’i and discovered strawberry guava - the plant is an invasive species that chokes the life out of everything it can, but it bears the most delicious fruit.
Boysenberries
Just planted three slips of these yesterday. Excited to see them grow!
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Salmon berries!
Finger limes. Tastes like lime sorbet but with the texture of roe.
These are a great one. I love me some finger lime.
Check out Taro and Cassava. Taro is a root vegetable similar to arrowroot and has now replaced potatoes for me (except for mash), and I don’t even know how to explain cassava, but both are absolutely delicious when boiled with coconut milk/cream.
Know em both bc of the podcast gastropod. Check it out if you’re into food, great podcast.
Sounds like it’s right up my alley. Thanks for the recommendation.
Maypops, which are a north american species of passionfruit. Obviously not a great hand fruit.
0: I have never heard of these! Do they taste the same or?
I wouldn’t say exactly, but a similar profile. Like two different varieties of apple taste the same but different.
Wild blueberries. They’re smaller, sweeter, and grow on a low bush. The bigger, high bush blueberries may as well be a different fruit.
My favourite langsat. It’s sweet and sometimes sour, flesh is like rambutan.
Yessss. I’m only just realizing how many foods I don’t know english names to lol.
The english name of langsat is langsat, haha!
Lmao yeah thats what I didnt know, I googled longsat and realized oh I know this by a local name. The word Longsat is whats new to me.
