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The fruit is oblong with a diameter of eight inches or 20 centimeters, weighs eleven to 13 pounds (5 to 6 kilograms), and can produce up to 500 seeds. Its skin can vary from light or dark green to cream. One plant can produce over 50 fruit. The fruit can last without decomposing for several years if kept dry after harvest.
The fruit of the longan is similar to that of the lychee, but is less aromatic in taste. [4] The longan (from Vietnamese long nhãn [5] or Cantonese lùhng ngáahn 龍眼, literally 'dragon eye'), is so named because the black seed within the shelled fruit creates the appearance of an eyeball. The plant is native to tropical Asia and China.
The seeds and fruits of most varieties can be stored for long periods of time, [5] particularly the sweet-tasting winter varieties with their thick, inedible skins. [119] Summer squash have a thin, edible skin. The seeds of both types can be roasted, eaten raw, made into pumpkin seed oil, [73] ground into a flour or meal, [120] or otherwise ...
The fruit is a large berry about 15–45 cm (6– 17 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long and 10–30 cm (4– 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter. [10]: 88 It is ripe when it feels soft (as soft as a ripe avocado or softer) and its skin has attained an amber to orange hue. Along the walls of the large central cavity are attached numerous black seeds. [14]
Solanum mammosum, commonly known as nipplefruit, [1] fox head, [2] cow's udder, or apple of Sodom, is an inedible Pan-American tropical fruit. [3] The plant is grown for ornamental purposes, in part because of the distal end of the fruit's resemblance to a human breast, while the proximal end looks like a cow's udder.
Inga edulis has been cultivated as a fruit tree for millennia and is widely sold on the local South American marketplace, mainly for the sweet, succulent pulp surrounding the seeds. The white pulp ( aril ) is consumed raw as a sweet snack, though it is less nutritious than the seeds.
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Clausena lansium, also known as wampee or wampi (from Cantonese 黃皮; 黄皮; wong 4 pei 4-2; 'yellow skin'), [1] is a species of strongly scented evergreen trees 3–8 m tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to southeast Asia. Its leaves are smooth and dark green. White flowers in late March are white, with four or five petals, about 3–4 mm ...