Does anyone know what these are?
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They grow on a tree.
32 answers
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Olives?
Marilyn Varilone
on Oct 19, 2015
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Looks a bit like a tamarillo which is a relative of the tomato. I personally don't particularly like them - raw - don't know about cooked. Anyway, have a look on google images to compare your "real thing" with the images you see. Never can be certain from a photo. Oh, I just noticed you said they grow on a tree and I don't think the tamarillo does - it grows on a tomato-like plant I think (so long ago since I had one.- no, I just searched it on google and tamarillos are known as the "tree-tomato". So, perhaps that is what they are.)
Jac2689723
on Oct 19, 2015
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Thank you. I will see if I can get a photo of the branches also. I am not sure if they are a tamarillo after cutting one open. Still trying to identify.
Sicilian Rose
on Oct 19, 2015
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To me they look like olives
Eleni Mourtzakis
on Oct 20, 2015
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I think these are what we call in the Philippines SINIGUELAS...
Edwin Enriquez
on Oct 20, 2015
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I thought they looked like acorns without their caps.
Cinth55
on Oct 20, 2015
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Jujube
Tk Lucero
on Oct 20, 2015
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Buckeyes
Theola Johnson
on Oct 20, 2015
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Satsumas
Tammy
on Oct 20, 2015
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They look like chestnuts
J adams
on Oct 20, 2015
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Did it have a casing? Buckeyes and chestnuts have casing. Google jujube and they look this these.
Tess Borgra
on Oct 20, 2015
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Don't know what they but they are not buckeyes. I have buckeyes and they are totally different.
Richard Tibbetts
on Oct 20, 2015
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they look like a hickory nut or chestnut
Sandra Nabors
on Oct 20, 2015
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they look like a hickory nut or chestnut
Sandra Nabors
on Oct 20, 2015
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look like persimmons to me
Duc2650138
on Oct 20, 2015
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Those look like olives. We had an olive tree in our yard in North Tx and it would drop its bitter fruits everywhere. The leaves will be thin and longish. Olives have to be processed to make them edible. You can google how. If they are fleshy with a pit and too bitter to eat then it's an olive.
Maven
on Oct 20, 2015
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Difficult to give a good answer without a size comparison or dimensions. Also, would be helpful if you cut one in half, lengthwise, so we could see inside. Otherwise, they could be lots of things.
Swan Road Designs
on Oct 20, 2015
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Jujube fruit? Abt the size of a crab apple fruit and Snapple like flavor
Debra C. Rollins
on Oct 20, 2015
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if they have a nut inside, they are from the family of the coconut, so I guess they should grow from a palm tree. I have eaten them and I know they grow in hot climates in south america.
Sara yaker
on Oct 20, 2015
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you can eat those and can them or know someone who can put them in jars and sell them my uncle did for years until he died miss those olives he did green and black ones
Nash8868
on Oct 20, 2015
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It is a Jujube (joo-joo-bee) or also known as Chinese Date. There is a nut inside. (Don't eat the nut) They can be dried like raisins to eat, or eaten raw.
Bonnie
on Oct 20, 2015
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perhaps persimmons? I'd need to see the inside though
Jennifer
on Oct 20, 2015
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A good picture of the leaf and the actual shrub would make definitive identification possible. Bark, growth habit; all these things are specifically described as part of an individual species.
Duv310660
on Oct 20, 2015
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Must not be from Nebraska
Joan Stenson
on Oct 20, 2015
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We have these growing around our area in north Texas and they are dates. Good to eat.
Judy Taylor
on Oct 20, 2015
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Dates are really healthy and these ones are soft and ripen quickly, keep them in the fridge
Aam2609715
on Oct 21, 2015
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acorns
Hgo2236170
on Oct 21, 2015
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Yes ,it is jujube fruits,they grow on the jujube trees,sometimes they call Chinese Apple.Tree is common in Azia, also grow very well in States. fruits use for make candy and other sweet treats.
Lan2682318
on Oct 21, 2015
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Jeglooks like hasselnuts, but proberly not Ha ha If it grows in Texas, it is most likely that you are right Judy Taylor ;)
Else Lill Kristiansen
on Oct 21, 2015
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Janet Pizaro, here are some more pictures. Thank you everyone for all of your answers. I have never seen an olive with a texture like this. The center is not soft as olives are. But then again, I have never picked an olive from a tree. I am really wondering now if they might be dates.
Sicilian Rose
on Oct 21, 2015
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Thank you all for taking the time to answer. I am pretty well convinced they are Jujubes, which resemble dates. I have searched online and found several images and they look identical with the exception of not all of them being wrinkled. Probably will as they continue to ripen. Here is one of the sites with information about the Jujube. http://www.biodiverseed.com/post/108674302603/okay-so-first-off-thank-you-for-being-somewhat-of
Sicilian Rose
on Oct 21, 2015
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Skin is as thin as an apple or plum or cherry but the pulp resembles more of a plum or cherry. Perhaps it's of the plum or cherry family
Jennifer
on Oct 22, 2015
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