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Remember to get the black ones, the red one is still green, i.e., not sweet! It's delicious!
Just love this fruit!! We called it Atemoia in Brazil.
Two more strange, but delicious, fruits to eat:
The Common Medlar (Mespilus germanica), is a large shrub or small tree. It is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe, mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey.Common Medlar is one of the few fruit that becomes edible in winter. The reddish-brown medlar fruit is a pome, 2–3 cm diameter, with wide-spreading persistent sepals giving a 'hollow' appearance to the fruit. They become edible after being softened ('bletted') by frost, or naturally in storage given sufficient time. Once softening begins the skin rapidly takes a wrinkled texture and turns dark brown, and the inside reduces to the consistency and flavour reminiscent of apple sauce.
Sorbus domestica (Service Tree, or sometimes True Service Tree) to distinguish it from the Wild Service Tree. The fruit is a pome 2–3 cm long, greenish-brown, often tinged red on the side exposed to sunlight; it can be either apple-shaped or pear-shaped. The fruit is a component of a cider-like drink which is still made in parts of Europe. Picked straight off the tree, it is highly astringent and gritty; however, when left to blet (over-ripen) it sweetens and becomes pleasant to eat.