fruit of the week

[leekiv]

Originally Posted by John Evans

yours is a funny colour and rather larger than mine Keith ....errrrr mine is small and stubby about 6 inches with four ridges running along its length...why do I feel dirty

now back to "bananas" Are you gonna try it?

[reese_in_va]

Let's get this thread active again....

This fruit is related to the pawpaws, a tropical Annonacae.
Fruit, leaves and seeds have many herbal medicinal uses. If you lay leaves under the bed of a person who has fever, by morning the fever will break.



Do you have any stories to tell about this fruit?

[Chirimoya]

Originally Posted by reese_in_va

Let's get this thread active again....

This fruit is related to the pawpaws, a tropical Annonacae.
Fruit, leaves and seeds have many herbal medicinal uses. If you lay leaves under the bed of a person who has fever, by morning the fever will break.



Do you have any stories to tell about this fruit?

That's not a chirimoya (custard apple), that's a guanabana (soursop).


Chirimoya or cherimoya

[reese_in_va]

I actually knew that, it's in the same genius, thats why I mentioned you. BTW, such rapid response...

[M.A.R.]

Wellll those are two different fruits the bottom one I dont know the name of and the top fruit is 'guanabana'.

That's one tropical fruit I am not fond of, guanabana.

I loooooooove papaya(lechosa), pineapple, banana, mangoes, mmmmmm guayaba.
stories about this fruit? Dominicans make a drink called 'champola' out of guanabana, its a drink or a shake made with the meat of the fruit, my parents had a tree of this.

oops we were all writing at the same time, thanks Keith.

[Keith R]

The bottom one is Chirimoya fruit, MAR. That's what she was saying, that they were two different fruits.

[Chirimoya]

I like the drink made with guanábana - champola.

Chirimoya does not grow in the DR as far as I know. It grows in Spain and probably other places around the Med, but it's originally from the Andean region. I didn't choose it as a handle because I like the taste, BTW.

[Keith R]

Originally Posted by M.A.R.

oops we were all writing at the same time, thanks Keith.

a sus ordenes, M.A.R.

[reese_in_va]

Personally I do not like the taste of soursop myself. I have heard it is used in link with chemo-therapy in Europe and for other cancerous complications. The tea can make you sleepy, so my neighbor say's. As far as cherimoya or custard apple, I have not seen it here and have never tried it. Would never knock on your handle, Chirimoya

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by Chirimoya

That's not a chirimoya (custard apple), that's a guanabana (soursop).


Chirimoya or cherimoya

Isn't this the fruit called mamón in the DR? The pulp is kind of sandy.