Six Strange Fruits
Let dive right in shall we with six strange fruits! Contestant number 1 Inga edulis - Icecream Bean Tree Sounds delicious does it not? Icecream bean tree. Well they are something you can grow quite easily in your yard, either in a pot or in the ground. Growing between 4 and 10 metres tall, depending on your location, mine and my mums are about 2 to 3 years old and about 1.5 metres. These easy to grow trees, have bronze coloured new leaves , and green foliage year round. It's little fluffy cream flowers are followed by pods that are filled with inedible black seeds. But surrounding those seeds is a white pulp, and its takes like vanilla icecream! Contestant number 2 Puhala Tree Such a strange fruit! Inside each of those bright orange/red keys or phalanges (the knobbly pieces) is a fibourous flesh and occasionally an edible seed that can be roasted. The flesh is usually chewed or blended for its juices and then discarded as it quite ch...
