Exotic fruit

[Slurm]

I live in a temperate climate, zone 7B, usual low 10 f, rare snow in the winter, frost November-early April(but still to warm in the summer for those #%@* highland neps). Durians wouldn't work here, although they may in a large greenhouse.

 

[Treaqum]

HAs anyone every had rootbeer plant? I tried some at the zoo. I would not recommend this to you ladies. The leaves taste like rootbeer. And it apparently commonly gives women bladder-infections but the botanist at the zoo did not know why. It was sort of like chewing mint leaves (some have spines you know).

 

[PlantAKiss]

I have always wanted to try a durian. But you never see them here.

I like passionfruit and lychees. Lychees are goood. Fresh figs are a favorite. I used to pick them fresh off my grandmother's fig bush when I was a kid. Gooooood. There are a lot of people who have never had a fresh fig.

I like trying new kinds of fruit. I've never heard of some of the ones mentioned here. I will have to look for them.

 

[jimscott]

They will go well with your many and varied cookies! (bakies!)

 

[KingShaman]

Can't go wrong with lychee. Lilikoi is pretty good if you don't mind seeds, and strawberry guavas are ono.

 

[Jason Wong]

Quote[/b] (D muscipula @ May 26 2005,12:07)]Pihtaya (Dragon Fruit) juice is really good.  Didn't realize it was from a cactus until just recently.

Dragon fruit is from a cactus?

Which one?

*Thinking about a red ripe fruit with dragon skin hanging from a cactus in a hot dry desert*...hmmm. That might explain why it is so soft and juicy...