Since I had company yesterday I didn't bother birding but had a wander round snapping a few different plants and flowers that grow everywhere.
So a little fruity Thai photo quiz for you today. Can you name all for of the fruits in the collage. They are all growing on the farm. A couple are very easy, a third not too hard but it is not a Durian. While the fourth should have you scratching your heads.
Actually I will give you two clues for the difficult one, although it is a fruit in one sense of the word it is not edible, however when it has changed from the green pod you can see in the photograph it is used to manufacture something that you may have heard of or even had a close encounter with!
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9 comments:
Banana
Papaya (Pawpaw)
Kapok
Jack fruit
Mike good one maybe I can answer
1- banana 2- papaya 3- green pod from cotton tree ( we sleep on matress and pillow made of the dried cotton inside the pod when it dries and falls on the ground , we have 2 in our back yard ) It was a money crop for Ciejay and family when she was growing up and a lot of folks in our village pick the dried pods and the matress folks from BKK come and buy it from them. 4- jack fruit we cut and cleaned one last week from our tree and it's a lot of hard work and messy as there is a lot of rubber sap inside and it's really sticky and hard to clean up .
hope I at least got one or two right , love your quizes. Malcolm
Malcolm & Mike(welcome)well done to you.
You both have the right answers and there's me thinking No3 was hard!
I will publish your comments later so others can have a guess without seeing your answers.
Thanks for taking part.
Can I try?
Banana, Papaya, what is called Kekabu in Malay (can be used as stuffing for a pillow) and Jackfruit.
Lina well done, you got them all right, will publish comment a little later to give a few others time for a guess.
First, bananas, second is papaya, third (bottom/left) is cotton fruit, fourth is jack fruit.
When cotton fruit is young, the "entire" fruit is edible. When middle-aged, only the seeds are eaten. When fully mature, "cotton-like fiber" is extracted from the pod, and used as a filler in pillows or mattresses in Isan.
Regards from Ken C. in California.
Thanks everyone for having a go at this.
I thought the Kapok might fool you!!!
I didn't know it was edible but being Thailand it makes sense.
For the record Bananas,Papaya,Kapok and Jack Fruit are the answers. There are of course local(to country) names for these fruits. Lina is from Malaysia for example.
Great effort, will have to make the next one a bit more difficult!
aww all identified already! #3 was a toughie but I was guessing it as kapok, so yay me! :) The other three were pretty evident for anyone in the tropics, I guess :)
Lynne well done it is indeed Kapok
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