Found this um….unusual….specimen as I walked out our back gate. The netted stinkhorn (so named because it smells of rotten manure) is apparently grown extensively throughout Asia for its edible stalk. I don’t think I’ll add it to our dinner stew…..
I pass this every day as I walk across the scary bridge to my parking area…..but yesterday I actually looked at it. “It” is growing on the side of a kukui (candlenut) tree, consists of layers of paper-like leaves, a “paintbrush” orange appendage, a still-furled fern and feathery green….stuff. I have no idea what it…
For a minute I thought I was back in Nevada when I saw this growing along the side of Mauna Kea!
Delicious and makes a wonderful fruit wine….but very invasive and considered a major pest to native forest
Native to Malaysia, and brought by the original settlers to Hawaii. When fully ripe, looks like a Delicious Apple, but tastes more like a pear
Origin: The Philippines. Also known as star apple. Bite into and suck out the custardy pulp. Yum!
Related to the hibiscus, it has flowers which open yellow, then turn orange to red and drop within one day.
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