I'd also like to mention Sapota.
Honorary mention to Grewia asiatica and Syzygium.
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I'd also like to mention Sapota.
Honorary mention to Grewia asiatica and Syzygium.
Water apples, or wax apple. Their name is pretty much self-explanatory in terms of the taste. Really refreshing in the tropics.
I've been meaning to look into planting some Camas bulbs. A kind of tuber crop grown by indigenous people around here. Used to be entire prairies of them before whitey showed up
Maypops, which are a north american species of passionfruit. Obviously not a great hand fruit.
0: I have never heard of these! Do they taste the same or?
I wouldn't say exactly, but a similar profile. Like two different varieties of apple taste the same but different.
Jujubes. They're like a dryer sweeter small apple. They don't need a lot to grow where I am and there's hundreds per tree.
So not in my area, but I recently discovered cloudberry jam, which is absolutely delicious. It's like a mix of citrus and strawberry.
Persimmons. Have a full size tree about to drop maybe 40 pounds of them. And I have no idea what to do with that many.
Dwarf raspberry/dewberry. My pop used to call it 'gumbo' for some reason.
Its a tiny little raspberry plant that produces one berry per plant, so its hard to get it in any quantity.
The fruit itself is more juicy than a regular raspberry, and tastes more like fake raspberry flavored candy. Its always a treat to find these while hiking.
Gooseberries are found in several traditional recipes from southern Netherlands, but most supermarkets no longer carry the fruit.