Sweet! Jamaican fruits...

**mountaingal** · 10-06-2003, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by Portmore.:
[qb] so where is di write up on Lychee?
an did anybady menshan Star fruit? {di yellowish fruit dat shape like a star an it sowa so till when yu tink bout it yu jaw dem juss lack up tight tight!!!}

mi waan go home [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [/qb]

me a reverse snob enuh, Miss Portmore....dem deh stoosh town fruit haffe come backa de line afta de humble guava and neeseberry and wat not... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

if smaddy else no poas bout dem fruit deh, me wi si weh me can do later....

**evanovitch** · 10-06-2003, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by mountaingal:
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Originally posted by evanovitch:
[qb] anybadi mention MAWMIE yet...mi woulda give Bob Marley millions fi a mawmie rite now...anymore deh a yard doh... a long time mi no see a mawmie at all [/qb]

evano, see Sandi poas bout mammee apple pon page 1...

me neva eat dat yet...wat it taste like? [/qb]

it hard fi define di taste and aldoh mi is ongle 21 an holding fass,(so tight dat mi finga nail dem bleach out) [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] mi no eat it dis long time...but di closest ting to how it look is a cataloupe but di meat firmer an mi really a try tink of what mi coulda compare it to fi mek u taste it so to speak

**tonirand** · 10-06-2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by mountaingal:
[qb] Anna, jimbelin wain de pan me liss, but dang if i know what it call officially, so me can fine it pon de Net. me wi try later tonight.

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Waiting

**msportmore** · 10-06-2003, 04:33 PM

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MG, mi wouldan di menshan some more but yu poas bout dem already - naesberry, jackfruit, guava, pomgranat [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] an all dem sinting deh...

anyway, mi will wait roun a di back a di line till oonu decide fi chat bout mi lychee dem [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 04:48 PM

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HO, I know the fruits you have the two pics, but I never knew it as Annotto ... the Annotto nut is what they call "Bissy/Bizzy". This fruit you have is a fist size husk with the most wickedest prickly stuff inside. Heaven forbid if your fingers ever ketch pon di prickly prickly, dem will drive yu crazy!

Originally posted by H.O:
[qb] guess this... [/qb]

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 04:53 PM

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There are two types of Jimbilin that I know. This one is what I call Chinese Jimbilin or Carambola

The other Jimbilin is a pea size fruit, which makes your mouth pucker up... just thinking of it makes my mouth pucker.

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 04:55 PM

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Passion Fruit

The passion fruit is a native of tropical America and was noted by the Spanish in Brazil in the 1500's. There are more than 400 species of which at least 50 or more are edible.

The two main commercial varieties are Passiflora edulis L. a purple fruit and P. edulis f. flavicarpa a yellow variety.
Australia is the largest single market for passion fruit and the bulk is used for blending with other juices and in softdrinks.

**tonirand** · 10-06-2003, 04:56 PM

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One request please,

Starapple!!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]ray:

Tanky

Anyways, mi nuh gats nummo lunch time suh mi goen agen. I'll check back later.

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 04:59 PM

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Btw, Is two type of Passion Fruit mi know bout, the one that I posted, which we generally call "Passion Fruit" and another type that is smaller in size, called Sweet Cup

Common names: Sweet Cup

English: hard-shelled passionfruit, sweet calabash, sweet cup

French: pomme calabas

Other: pārapōutini ‘enua, pārapōutini Maori (Cook Islands); ka‘atene Maori, katinga Maori (Cook Islands (Mangaia)); pasio (Samoa), vaine kai (Tonga)

Description: “Leaves with blades entire, ovate, 13-17 x 6.5-9.5 cm, base rounded or subcordate, apex short acuminate, petioles 3-4 cm long with 1-2 pairs of sessile glands; stipules deciduous, floral bracts large, 3-parted, nearly enclosing the mature fruits; fruits spheroidal, 3.5-4 cm in diam., fruit wall yellowish green, hard and woody, 5 mm thick; seed arils translucent white, grape-flavored” (Lorence et al, 1995).

“Glabrous, woody, tendril-bearing vine. Leaves alternate, ovate-elliptical, up to 15 or more cm long and 8 cm wide, base rounded or subcordate, apex acuminate, petioles 3-5 cm long, bearing 2 glands. Flowers solitary, purplish, axillary on peduncles 5 or more cm long. Fruit about 4 cm long, rind hard” (Yuncker, 1943).

Habitat/ecology: Naturalizes in disturbed areas from sea level to 300 m.

Propagation: Seed, spread by birds and animals.

Native range: Northern South America.

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 05:02 PM

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Just for you Hanna [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The Jamaican Star Apple

The star apple tree Chrysophyllum cainito is a native of the Caribbean and Central America. It is a member of the Sapotaceae family which includes over 150 species of tree found in tropical and sub-tropical regions.
In Jamaica, it is fairly common and well known for the luscious fruit and its use as a shade tree. A mature tree attains a height of over 15 metres with a trunk of nearly a metre in diameter.

Source http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/l...s/starapp.html

**msportmore** · 10-06-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by SandiF:
[qb] There are two types of Jimbilin that I know. This one is what I call Chinese Jimbilin or Carambola

The other Jimbilin is a pea size fruit, which makes your mouth pucker up... just thinking of it makes my mouth pucker. [/qb]

A dis mi did a talk bout SandiF [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] (A Star Fruit mi call it [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] )

**mountaingal** · 10-06-2003, 05:09 PM

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hi, anna and sandi, oonu no si seh me do starapple areddy pan page 1. me do it early caw is one a me favrite...

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 05:11 PM

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Coolie Plum

Mi favourite Coolie Plum tree was right on South Avenue (?) off Constant Spring Rd. Brooklyn Supermarket did almost facen that road -- Kings Plaza on the Right heading towards W.Kings House Rd, and mussi Lane's Plaza on the left. Mi sey wi could a raid di people dem Coolie Plum tree!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

English: Indian jujube, Chinese apple, Chinese date

French: jujubier

Other: manzanas, manzanita, jujube (Guam); baer, bahir, baher (Fiji)

Description: “Small tree with prickly thorn-like stipules and small simple alternate 3-nerved leaves white (or tawny) tomentose beneath, dark green above, ovate or subelliptic, or slightly rhomboid, mostly less than 6 cm long, finely serrulate; flowers bisexual or male, greenish, in small cymes to 10 cm long; about 5 mm wide; calyx 5-toothed; petals 5; disc large; ovary with 2 styles; fruit a drupe with sweet sour mealy flesh and a 2-seeded stone, orange when ripe.” (Stone, 1970)

Thorny tree 4-10 m high. Flowers are white or greenish white and the fruits are orange to brown, 2-3 cm long, with edible white pulp surrounding a 2-locular pyrene. (Smith, 1985)

Habitat/ecology: In Fiji, “sometimes naturalized along roadsides and in agricultural land, uaually near sea level but occasionally up to an elevation of about 600 m” (Smith, 1985).

Propagation:.Seeds.

Native range: "Perhaps originally a native of India, Ziziphus mauritiana is apparently now widely naturalized from tropical Africa to Afghanistan and China, and also through Malesia and into Australia and some Pacific archipelagoes; its range as an ornamental is even more extensive." (Smith, 1985)

Presence:Pacific islands

hmm, they did not list Cribbean/S.America...

**SandiF** · 10-06-2003, 05:18 PM

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cooyah! mi just see that you were offering it to rebel. I only hope that she did not eat into the purple part of the skin, 'cause me always hear dat it must not be eaten cause it poisonous. Anybody heva heard of that bout star apple?

Originally posted by mountaingal:
[qb] hi, anna and sandi, oonu no si seh me do starapple areddy pan page 1. me do it early caw is one a me favrite... [/qb]

**mountaingal** · 10-06-2003, 05:21 PM

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naw, de purple part just below the skin can be eaten - it is not poisonous. but it WILL give you a butt-breaking case of constipation...

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