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Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 1:32
| Does anyone know what kind of fruit this is?
It has the taste of a pear and the texture of eggplant. - Mark |
Follow-Up Postings:
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- Posted by seedmoney 8A (seedmoney@embarqmail.com) on Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 7:12
| Perhaps an underipe Quince, Pseudocydonia sinensis? |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 10:26
| Immature hedge apple / Osage-orange? Don't know if they're always bumpy or not... |
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- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 13:53
| The osage here are already looking very brain-like. They look kinda brain-like inside too....and firm, not like eggplant-like. I'm also very sure they wouldn't taste like pear. ;) Not osage orange. FataMorgana |
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| could also be a white guava, but to me they taste nothing like pears. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 15:29
| Thanks, Fata. All we ever did with those was hit them with a baseball bat, great fun that! So I wouldn't recognize a cleanly-cut one. |
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- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 16:09
| I know someone who uses the osage fruits in herbal extracts so I know well what the inside looks like. Baseball bats....well they are softball-sized! ;) First impression to me was a guava as well, but I'm unfamiliar with the fruit so don't know. FataMorgana |
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| All the guavas I've ever seen had a very distinctive fruity smell. I also think this looks like guava. But that seems unlikely if it was growing in Maine. Can you tell us where you got it? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Guava
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