Dear all
good guess work and suggestions from Ushadi. EVEN I WILL BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THE LOOKS AND TASTE.
BUT NOW A LITTLE BOTANY
Jackfruit is a compound fruit. The jackfruit flowers are in a form of an infloerencense. Each is an individual flower, which gets fertilized and form fruit. But when the fruit formation occurs all fruits togather form one fruit. That is the external rind is common on all fruits togather.
internally each part wat we eat is the individual fruit with a seed in it. the threads or fibres or stripes which we dont eat are the unfertilised flowers.
Now in the photographed jackfruit some of the flowers have followed the normal phenomenon forming normal jackfruit. Some flowers have not followed the rule (like us) and hence formed seperate fruit each. Since the rind is developed on every fruit it is giving an appearence like banana.
But i will definately like to know about inner part. generally such abnormalities result into malformation of fruit too.
other example of compound fruit is pineapple. Each exagone wil represent a fruit.
Waiting for pudijis observations furthe.
BOTANISTS EXCUSE FOR THE NONSCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGIES USED IF ANY AS THIS IS FOR NON BOTANISTS TO UNDERSTAND
madhuri
--- On Thu, 23/6/11, Ushadi micromini <micromi...@gmail.com> wrote: