ID on bottled fruit

Mar 31, 2006 6 Replies

Can somebody who is into growing exotic edible fruits please identify the fruit contained in the bottle illustrated at



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tastes almost exactly like the European gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa, but clearly is not.



The fruit is the size of an olive and, as the photo shows, seems to have had a stone removed.



It is a product of China.


Check out the litchi fruits - litchi and rambutani. Although rambutani has far spinier (hairier? One or the other) skin than that shown on the bottle...

Henriette

Most likely this fruit:

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Cheers!

It looks like a Longan. The ones i've seen and eaten were white. Very tasty.

Dwayne

Chinese haw is about 1 inch in diameter. Big enough?

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(a type of apricot/plum) is probably too big.

If you *do* find out what the fruit is, please post. I hate unsolved mysteries.

I don't think you have been reading the thread. If you have, why do you disbelieve the person who translated the Chinese characters on the jar? It is clearly Chinese hawthorn fruit.

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