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Fruit size varies considerably: wild fruit specimens can be as small as 4 centimeters (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) and some domesticated specimens can weigh well over 300 kilograms (660 pounds). [8] The current world record was set in 2014 by Beni Meier of Switzerland with a 1,054 kg (2,323.7 lb) pumpkin.
A citrus called forbidden fruit or shaddette has been discovered in Saint Lucia; it may be the plant described by Hughes and Macfadyen. [34] The name grape-fruit was used during the 19th century to refer to pomelos. [36] It was brought to Florida by the French businessman Count Odet Philippe in 1823, in what is now known as Safety Harbor. [1]
The fruit matures from December to February, being a pear-shaped red berry, known as a riberry, growing to 13 mm long, covering a single seed, 4 mm in diameter. Seed germination is unreliable, complete after 25 days; however, cuttings strike readily. The fruit is eaten by the Australasian figbird, emu, and flying fox (pteropus).
Hura crepitans, the sandbox tree, [2] also known as possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, [3] is an evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America including the Amazon rainforest.
The sweet orange, Citrus x sinensis, [10] is not a wild fruit, but arose in domestication in East Asia. It originated in a region encompassing Southern China, Northeast India, [11] and Myanmar. [12] The fruit was created as a cross between a non-pure mandarin orange and a hybrid pomelo that had a substantial mandarin component.
Japan may have been the root of the art of fruit and vegetable carving, called Mukimono in Japanese. According to the book Japanese Garnishes: The Ancient Art of Mukimono, by Yukiko and Bob Haydok, Mukimono began in ancient times when food was served on unglazed clay pottery. These rough platters were covered with a leaf before food was plated.
Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit:
Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge is a painting attributed to the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The picture has been variously dated between 1601 and 1610 (Caravaggio scholar John T. Spike lists the date as circa 1603 in the second revised edition [ 1 ] of his study of the artist).