I have been trying to ID a fruit, that I found growing wild, for quite some time...........to no avail.
It is the color of a kumquat/loquat when ripe. It is approximately the same size as said fruit. It is a little more perfectly oval than a kumquat but not pear shaped like a loquat. It is very bitter. The key bit for identifying this fruit are its seeds. It has many little "pockets", like citrus, only instead of only having 4 or 5 seeds, it has a tiny seed in each little pocket making for hundreds and hundreds of seeds.
If you cut the fruit in half, horizontally, you notice that its flesh is not "round" like other "citrus". When looking at the cut insides, it looks like 3 "arcs" all meeting up with their lowest points at the center....like 3 bowls put bottom to bottom to bottom.
Lastly, it does not grow on a bush or tree but, rather, on a skinny vine on the ground.
Any ideas anyone?
|