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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I totally read this as "NTFS" and thought this was going to be a joke about shitty file systems.

[-] tamal3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago
[-] lmmarsano@group.lt 12 points 1 week ago

Mangosteen? The rind hardens like leather & makes a nice container/ornament.

[-] redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 week ago

Love these. They taste like lollies.

[-] Foreigner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I recommend checking out Weird Explorer if you're interested in learning about new and weird fruits.

[-] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Who made the bluesimmon

[-] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries.

[-] pheelicks@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Few years ago I found medlars (German: Mispel) in my local grocery store. Had never seen them before. They look somewhat like apricots but taste like a mix of other fruits. Really tasty for a not so popular fruit. It's cool to make such a discovery. :)

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

ah yes, the openarse

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Not affiliated with them, but if anyone has money to throw at interesting fruit, I got a box of assorted fruit from the Miami Fruit Company for Christmas and it was pretty cool to have weird fruits to munch on for a few days.

There may be other companies doing the same thing maybe with a better assortment or cheaper, but that's the one I know off the top of my head.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

I'm not a plant person but I do make my own dyes and pigments from organics. One of the ingredients I use to precipitate the pigment, or as a mordant, which can change the colour, is aluminum sulphate - also used as plant fertilizer to raise soil acidity.

The chemicals that produce colour in plants are super sensitive to PH, there's a plant based paint company, I think in Europe somewhere, that makes everything from green to red to blue out of just red cabbage.

I don't know if that's what's happening here, but it is indeed super neat.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as โ€˜blueโ€™ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as Iโ€™m concerned thatโ€™s pretty blue!

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So what are they? My best guesses clockwise from the top:

  1. Cherry???
  2. Yangmei/Chinese bayberry
  3. Apple? But with pink flesh for some reason
  4. peach? But color is strange
  5. Some type of persimmon but they're not normally that blue color, so it may be a less common Diospyros species.
[-] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Persimmon can be blue, but that picture is edited and over-saturated. They're darker and have a powder coat, like blueberries. Wouldn't be surprised if the apple picture was also edited, but they can have pink flesh.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've eaten that apple and it actually looks like that.

So I wonder if maybe that blue ~~oran berry~~ persimmon has maybe been bred to be bluer?

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I've never seen a blue Japanese persimmon but maybe it varies due to variety.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Reverse image search I found somewhere saying they're Grenadine apples. But there are several types that are pink in the middle. My personal favorite apple ever are Lucy Glo which are also pink ๐Ÿฉท

[-] gray@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sweet cherry, kaki, mulberry, peach(?) and apple(??)

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Oops I meant clockwise.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Every apple tree that's not grafted is like a new fruit tree

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