Here are a few of the fruits that
came in to season this week around Gamboula and Somongue.
 |
It
seems the guavas here have multiple bumper crops a year! They are in season
again now. No complaints there.
|
 |
Bunchosia is also called peanut butter and jelly fruit,
because it kind of tastes just like that. These small trees look like Christmas
trees this time of year, loaded with green, orange, and red ornaments.
|
 |
Marang has a somewhat sweet but burnt rubbery smell when it
is ripe. You can smell it a fair distance from the tree, so this is your clue
to go searching for it. The outside of the fruit is hard and bristly, kind of
like a sea urchin, while the inside is like a small jack fruit, but sweeter.
|
 |
Canastel, or egg fruit, taste like boiled sweat potato. They
go bad very shortly after they fall from the tree, so you have to snatch them
up quickly.
|
 |
This pretty looking fruit is a water apple. It is not as
good as it looks, and is like eating slightly sweet styrofoam.
|
 |
Rose apples are small yellow fruit that smell like perfume. I
think eating them is like eating perfume too.
|
 |
The jack fruit tree outside my house is loaded with fruit. This
week I had 8 ripen! These also have a distinctive smell to them which alerts
you that one is ripe. When you smell it, you climb up the tree in search of it.
|
 |
Cumquats don’t really do great here, but this year there are a few.
|
 |
And I can’t leave out the ever present banana.
|
