What Fruit is This?
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Linda Rubin on Sep 06, 2012Kind of looks like passion fruitHelpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Sep 07, 2012If the ripe fruit were more orange than red I might guess that it was a hachiya persimmon.Helpful Reply
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Louise on Sep 07, 2012It was very red. A darkish red, actually.Helpful Reply
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Paul M on Sep 07, 2012I don't know what it is but I do know that it is not a passion fruit. Passion fruit grows on a vine not in a tree.Helpful Reply
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Patience T on Sep 07, 2012persimmons maybeHelpful Reply
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Louise on Sep 07, 2012No, he has a nearby persimmon tree. These are longer than the "squattier" persimmons.Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Sep 08, 2012Hachiya persimmons are longer than the fuyus. Perhaps he'll give you one and you can cut it open.Helpful Reply
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Louise on Sep 08, 2012Ohhhh, OK, so these are persimmons, too? I've never even tasted a persimmon. He gave me some figs a few weeks ago which were quite tasty. I stopped to comment on his crops and he handed me some figs. Nice fellow.Helpful Reply
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Sarah T on Sep 08, 2012I've seen several types of persimmons, running farmers markets in CA - and none of the varieties every looked like that. I wonder if its been crossed with something and its a hybrid now.Helpful Reply
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Louise on Sep 09, 2012I might have discovered what this is. A friend was telling me about the great garden she inherited from the Chinese family whom she bought her house from and she mentioned jujubes, or Chinese date trees. Could this be the same, I wonder?Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Sep 10, 2012That seems decidedly possible, Louise.Helpful Reply
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Paul M on Sep 10, 2012I have never had any of that fruit but I have seen pictures of them and those do look like the photos of Jujubes I have seen before. I didn't know they were Chinese though. I have heard they taste a bit like pawpaw but once again I have not had the pleasure of comparing them, yet.Helpful Reply
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Louise on Sep 10, 2012I sent the photo to my friend who has this growing in HER yard and she told me that it is a jujube. Mystery solved!Helpful Reply
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Paul M on Sep 11, 2012If you get some Louise please let us know what the fruit is like. I know of several nurseries that sell these trees but I have avoided buying any because I have no idea what they are like.Helpful Reply
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Louise on Oct 19, 2012I never got any of this man's fruit, but yesterday a Korean friend offered me a piece of a rice cake. It had fruit in it so I asked what the fruit was. Some were raisins, which I knew, but she said the larger pieces were jujube. They were dried, obviously, and to me, tasted very similar to the raisins, but at least twice the size of a raisin.Helpful Reply
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