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Frutas de Baja
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Desert like
it most certainly ain't !
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There's some of the fruits
any of you know what the heck they are ?
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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]
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Very cool pictures
Beyond the obvious mango and banana I'm at a loss.
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Las Frutas de Baja
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?
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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).
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Jack Swords
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#8 no Kiwi
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.
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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?
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