Mystery solved

[morsla]

I finally found out what I picked from my parents' garden... I went wandering through the fruit trees last time I went home, and filled a bag with Mystery Fruit(tm).

Apparently, they're from a lemonade tree. Yellow fruit, thick skin like a lemon, pale orange flesh, and a high sugar content.

That part of their garden has always been full of surprises: peacherines (smooth-skinned peaches), plumcots (green-skinned apricots that taste like plums), grafted apple trees with five different sorts of fruit...

...I'm just not sure if they live in some kind of Enid Blyton storybook, or on the Island of Doctor Moreau...

Comments

[umbra-mentis.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic - do they have a cherreach* tree perchance? ;)
Grafted trees are great - less space in the garden and plenty of variety. I know we've got an apple tree with a pear branch grafted on for some reason...



*Cherreach : fruit tree with cherries the size of peaches

[morsla.livejournal.com]

If we had peach-sized cherries, the tree would be bare and I would be rich :)

Mum & Dad don't really have a problem with space (current count: three groves of fruit, a berry garden, large vegie patch and a herb garden, with at almost another acre still to be filled...), but the grafted trees are an interesting novelty. If I had a courtyard-sized garden in the city, I'd get a tree with 3-4 different fruits on it so there would always be something in season.

[umbra-mentis.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...a cherry/apple/orange/pear tree?

[kashiichan.livejournal.com]

OMG. So jealous.

[harkon.livejournal.com]

Dr Moreau. That explains how you are a monkey ninja.

[vass]

Oh, cool. I bet they'd make great cordial.