Although not technically a cucumber, the Mexican sour gherkin/pickle (melothria scabra), looking somewhat like a watermelon, tastes just like a sweet and juicy cucumber. As a matter of fact, the only difference is 90% of it’s length. These are tiny,…
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Sour Pickles from Mexico
Tagged with: Annuals, Cucamelons, Cucumbers, Edibles, exotic fruit, Exotic Plants, fruit, Garden Vegetables, Gardens, Grapes, Melons, Melothria, Melothria Scabra, Mexican Vegetables, Mexico, Perennials, Plants, Tropical Fruit, tropics, Tubers, Vegetables, Vines, Watermelons
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Using Fruit as a Sweetener
Could this plant, the guajilote, a.k.a the candle tree (parmentiera edulis), make for a good sugar replacement? This plant of the Bignoniacea (trumpet flower, sausage fruit) family, has a fruit 6-12″ long and 1-2″ wide, which is described as having…
Tagged with: Bigoniaceae, brown fruit, Candle Tree, Desert Trees, Edibles, Foods, fruit, Giant Sloth, Green Flowers, Guajilote, Low Glycemic Index, Parmentiera, Parmentiera Edulis, Pickled Fruit, Pickles, Pink Flowers, Sausage Fruit, Sugar, Sugar Alternatives, Sugar Replacement, Sugarcane, Sweet Fruit, Sweet Peppers, Trees, Tropical Fruit, Trumpet Flower, Weight Loss
Posted in Fruit Farming, Nature, Trees
Posted in Fruit Farming, Nature, Trees
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