jrbaja - 9-17-2004 at 03:52 PM
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jrbaja - 9-17-2004 at 04:03 PM
Desert like
jrbaja - 9-17-2004 at 04:07 PM
it most certainly ain't !
There's some of the fruits
jrbaja - 9-17-2004 at 04:15 PM
any of you know what the heck they are ?
David K - 9-17-2004 at 04:16 PM
Gee JR, you're torturing us with these! I am thinking of a frosty smoothy with sapotes, papayas, bananas, and mangos!
... and that last one looks like some crazy kiwi fruit!
[Edited on 9-17-2004 by David K]
Very cool pictures
rogerj1 - 9-17-2004 at 11:07 PM
Beyond the obvious mango and banana I'm at a loss.
Las Frutas de Baja
Jack Swords - 9-18-2004 at 09:25 AM
I'll give it a try: #1 is either a ciruelo or a papache; # 2 is a sapote blanco; #3 ?, a close up or leaves would help; #4 banana; #5 papaya
female; #6 a cucurbita, like a bitter cucumber, a vine; #7 looks like a mango on a mango trunk; #8 is the cucurbita, a vine related to the
cucumber, but not really edible. Interesting collection of fruit photos, some wild and some domestic. Where? Anybody else have ideas on these
fruits...Mexitron?
DD - 9-19-2004 at 10:30 AM
It has been way too long since I've seen some of these, but my guesses are:
1. Ciruelo
2. White sapote
3. Hog plum (Spondias mombin), a delicious mango relative
4. Plantas
5. Paw paws (Papaya)
6. Mango (Mangifera indica)
7. Kaffir plum (Harpephyllum caffrum).
8. Kiwi fruit, Chinese gooseberry or, if it takes your fancy, golden hairy goat's testicles. In France it is called the vegetable mouse (souris
vegetales).
#8 no Kiwi
Jack Swords - 9-19-2004 at 03:13 PM
The Kiwi requires 600-800 hours of winter chill, not available in Baja Sur. I have raised Kiwis and they are quite edible, the cucurbita pictured is
quite familiar to me as they grew next to our house in Todos Santos and are so bitter that a small taste has you spitting for an hour. Totally
different vine structure. Also the Paw Paw (asiminia triloba) is a deciduous plant requiring many hours of chill and they grow here in central CA, but
the locals do call papayas sometimes a paw paw. Good thoughts on the spondias, I hope we'll get JR to let us know the local's term for these fruits.
David K - 9-19-2004 at 05:56 PM
When I lived in Australia, one of the many 'British' terms I learned was 'paw paw' for papaya... along with windscreen for windshield, boot for trunk,
fortnight for two weeks, etc.
Then there's the American fruit called paw paw that Jack speaks of, found in Michigan, I think?