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The fruit is also given names after its unique yellow colour similar to an egg yolk: it is known as the buah kuning telur ("yolk fruit") in Malay, [13] cây trứng gà ("chicken egg plant") in Vietnamese, mon khai (ม่อนไข่, khai meaning "egg") in Thai [12] and danhuang guo (蛋黃果 "egg yolk fruit")in Taiwan.
The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou 4 gwat 1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred to unripened kumquats, which are dark green in color, but the name was mistakenly applied to the loquat by the ancient Chinese poet Su Shi when he was residing in southern China, and the mistake was widely taken up by the Cantonese region ...
The species shares the common name quandong with other plants, bearing similar fruit; it may be distinguished as the "desert" or "sweet". The name quandong usually refers to the fruit of S. acuminatum in commercial usage. Variant spelling includes quondong and quandang. The fruit and plant are also named sweet quandong and native peach. [3]
Rane Roatta’s Miami Fruit farm figured out early on if it posted videos of the phallic-looking rare exotic fruit it grows in Redland, the videos would go viral.
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
The fruit's texture is creamy and soft, and the flavor is a mix of sweet potato, pumpkin, honey, prune, peach, apricot, cantaloupe, cherry, and almond. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] A mamey sapote is ripe when the flesh is vibrant salmon in color when a fleck of the skin is removed. [ 14 ]
The fruit is a fuzzy reddish-orange drupe around 1 cm (3 ⁄ 8 in) wide. The fruits are fleshy in years with ample moisture, and dry in drought years. [3] The seed is a heart-shaped stone. [3] The plant reproduces sexually via germination of the seed, and vegetatively by sprouting from its rhizome. [3]
When ripe, the skin is green and gives slightly to pressure. Some characterize the fruit flavor as a blend of banana, pineapple, papaya, peach, and strawberry. [29] The fruit can be chilled and eaten with a spoon, which has earned it another nickname, the "ice cream fruit". In Chile and Peru, it is commonly used in ice creams and yogurt. [4]