What are the fruit growing on corner of Ross St and St. Philips Road?
IC
know. Look like a large round pear. Curious, as I've lived opposite
for years, and always thought they were inedible, but recently people
have been picking them.
Cheers
Ian
Mike Causer
Quinces wouldn't be described as large, so possibly medlars. They have
to be left to rot, but are then apparently delicious.
Mike
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charliejuggler
The quinces we got from a friend recently were a decent size, maybe 6cm
in diameter. They make a fantastic jelly!
C
Marcus
If you have a Japonica the fruit are very small and need to be stewed a
long time. As you would expect from a cultivar bred for its flowers.
However, if you have a proper fruiting quince then you get a decent
sized fruit - but the flowers are less spectacular.
Marcus
Plum
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You can make a delicious sorbet out of the original fruit - not the
Japonica.
ke...@cam.ac.uk
Indeed. The quinces we had this year were twice the linear dimensions of any
ordinary pear. I don't know why you wouldn't describe them as large.
(Unless you were thinking of the fruits of the Japanese quince which is an
entirely different plant. These are said by some books to be inedible, and
they're certainly not as good as the real things, but I have made jelly from
them before now).
Katy
Jon Green
> Quinces wouldn't be described as large, so possibly medlars. They have
> to be left to rot, but are then apparently delicious.
At which point they are described as "bletted". Lovely word.
Jon
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IC
FYI, a bit more searching suggests they are "Nashi Pears",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrus_pyrifolia.
A council website mentions a "pear and plum walk" starting at Ross St,
mentioning Nashi Pears. And the pictures on google images look the
same.
Time to eat one I reckon.