Re: Imagine this!

No, it is actually more like a banana.  I have found a couple of recipes
for them (unable to use them recently because of squirrel varments).  The
recipes are much like banana pudding, etc.


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 12/29/2007 2:05:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Imagine this!
>
> That's what I've heard, Bonnie--that the fruit tastes kind of  
> banana-like. And from the pictures I seen of them, yes, smooth and sort  
> of kidney shaped, kind of like some of the small-to-midsize mangos. Is  
> the flesh gritty, like a pear?
>
>
> On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Bonnie Holmes wrote:
>
> > I have a stand of native pawpaws in my yard.  When I can get one  
> > before the
> > squirrels, the interior is pale yellow with large seeds and a banana  
> > taste.
> > The fruit is smooth on the outside, green, and rather in the shape of a
> > fat, more rounded banana.
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Date: 12/23/2007 8:13:51 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Imagine this!
> >>
> >> Yeah, they're both Annonas, but I've never seen or tasted a pawpaw, so
> >> I can't say how similar they are*. The sugar apple, also known as
> >> "sweetsop" in the Caribbean, is really lumpy [lobed] rather than
> >> scaly**. Each lobe is the exteror end of a segment that is quite like
> >> an orange segment, separated by thin membranes. And each segment has
> >> one seed. The seeds, as Kitty wrote, are black and shiny, about the
> >> size of watermelon seeds, but plumper. The seeds are also somewhat
> >> toxic--not exactly poisonous, but they'll give you the runs if you
> >> swallow them.
> >>
> >> * Pawpaws, while native to the woodlands of most of the eastern US,  
> >> are
> >> not native this far south. The University of Kentucky has a breeding
> >> program to develop this native fruit into a marketable crop. There are
> >> apparently two issues with the native fruit--one, the variation in
> >> quality is nearly equal to the variation in plants and, more
> >> importantly [from a marketing point of view], shelf-life is very  
> >> short.
> >>
> >> ** There are lots of other Annonas grown in the subtropcs/tropics,
> >> some, such as the cherimoya, even turn up in Wal-Mart's produce  
> >> section
> >> now and then. The cherimoya is scaly. Others, such as the custard  
> >> apple
> >> and the [native] pond apple are also scaly. But the atemoya--a
> >> naturally occurring cross between the cherimoya and the sugar apple
> >> [and by far the most popular Annona in subtropical Florida]--is lobed
> >> like its sugar apple parent.
> >>
> >> More than you wanted to know, I'm sure.
> >>
> >> On Dec 23, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:
> >>
> >>> Related to Pawpaws?
> >>>
> >>> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 23, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> a tropical American tree (Annona squamosa) of the custard-apple
> >>>> family; also : its edible sweet pulpy fruit with thick green scaly
> >>>> rind and shining black seeds
> >>>>
> >>>> Not familiar with it. But sounds good.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kitty
> >>>> neIN, Zone 5
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer"
> >>>> <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> >>>> To: "Garden Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:36 PM
> >>>> Subject: [CHAT] Imagine this!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> This morning while wandering around the plantation, I found a ripe
> >>>>> sugar apple on one of our two trees. It's about 2 months late for
> >>>>> sugar apples, so who knows what's going on. Anyway, I just ate it;
> >>>>> delicious.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Island Jim
> >>>>> Southwest Florida
> >>>>> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> >>>>> Hardiness Zone 10
> >>>>> Heat Zone 10
> >>>>> Sunset Zone 25
> >>>>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >>>>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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> >> Island Jim
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> Island Jim
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> Heat Zone 10
> Sunset Zone 25
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
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