exotic fruits -

:D Lots of pics of trees and ferns on your return please

 

You'll be lucky BM.We are still waiting for the Egyption holiday photo's from fourteen months ago,so don't hold your breath :D :D

 

Seems like there are quite a few folk going away soon so there should be lots of pics to drool over.

 

More dates seen in Malta this week -





- and some Opuntia with fruit. They make yummy jam / jelly from it.

 

Kedi, there are enough dates there to fill a calendar. :D

 

A good one David, not heard it before.

 

Our Opuntias look like that at the moment, Sis, but I thought they were flower buds not fruits ...

Also agree ... good one, David.

 

No, I'm sure that these are the fruit, Sis.

I've now googled and come up with this -

http://www.desertusa.com/magoct97/oct_pa/du_prkpear.html

 

I saw these growing in planters out front of the airport in Valletta.


Natal Plums -




The bark of the stem is quite rough-looking -

 

I still can't believe I've only got ONE fruit from my myriads of beautiful gardenia-scented flowers.

They are a sweet cranberry tasting fruit, grown in warm conditions.

I convinced Stu to take one to his home, but it's the natural and not hybrid as I have so sprawling and spiney where mine is not. We saw these spiney ones in Spain on our mini hol together and he didn't know them (although I bought mine from him) ... you MUST meet this guy next visit!

 

I found some more bananas growing while on holiday in Cyprus in January.


Bananas with flower still attached -




Baby bananas just starting off -




These ones are almost ready for picking -




A close-up of the flower -