• pheelicks@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    Few years ago I found medlars (German: Mispel) in my local grocery store. Had never seen them before. They look somewhat like apricots but taste like a mix of other fruits. Really tasty for a not so popular fruit. It’s cool to make such a discovery. :)

  • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Not affiliated with them, but if anyone has money to throw at interesting fruit, I got a box of assorted fruit from the Miami Fruit Company for Christmas and it was pretty cool to have weird fruits to munch on for a few days.

    There may be other companies doing the same thing maybe with a better assortment or cheaper, but that’s the one I know off the top of my head.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    So what are they? My best guesses clockwise from the top:

    1. Cherry???
    2. Yangmei/Chinese bayberry
    3. Apple? But with pink flesh for some reason
    4. peach? But color is strange
    5. Some type of persimmon but they’re not normally that blue color, so it may be a less common Diospyros species.
    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Reverse image search I found somewhere saying they’re Grenadine apples. But there are several types that are pink in the middle. My personal favorite apple ever are Lucy Glo which are also pink 🩷

    • FoxyFerengi@startrek.websiteEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Persimmon can be blue, but that picture is edited and over-saturated. They’re darker and have a powder coat, like blueberries. Wouldn’t be surprised if the apple picture was also edited, but they can have pink flesh.

      • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I’ve eaten that apple and it actually looks like that.

        So I wonder if maybe that blue oran berry persimmon has maybe been bred to be bluer?

    • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I’m not a plant person but I do make my own dyes and pigments from organics. One of the ingredients I use to precipitate the pigment, or as a mordant, which can change the colour, is aluminum sulphate - also used as plant fertilizer to raise soil acidity.

      The chemicals that produce colour in plants are super sensitive to PH, there’s a plant based paint company, I think in Europe somewhere, that makes everything from green to red to blue out of just red cabbage.

      I don’t know if that’s what’s happening here, but it is indeed super neat.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as ‘blue’ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as I’m concerned that’s pretty blue!