I gotta give it to mulberries, don’t get enough attention!
The buds of the flower Bauhinia variegata are both cooked amd used for pickles, spectacular stuff.
Do thimbleberries count? Not sure how local they are to me, but they’re so tasty. Think a sweeter, more fragile raspberry. They make an excellent jam! my only complaint I have is how fragile they are, they only last a day or two in the fridge
Huckleberries are real y’all.
I had the pleasure of visiting Montana recently and huckleberries are delicious. I basically tried anything I saw that used them (in true tourist fashion).
Not willing to compete for food with a grizzly bear man. I’ll take your cheapest pack of frozen starwberries pls and thank you.
Rambutans. They look like fluffy sea urchins but you crack that shell open and it’s soooo good. Much like leches.
Now lychee I like, so I’d love to try these some day!
Ha! Oh wow, now that’s a spicy spelling mistake! 🤌
Yes, rambutans are delicious.
Pomelo. Like grapefruit without the mess.
Love me some pomelo, and as mid-autumn festival is coming I’m sure there’s going to be a bunch of them on sale!
I’ve been meaning to look into planting some Camas bulbs. A kind of tuber crop grown by indigenous people around here. Used to be entire prairies of them before whitey showed up
I don’t see it mentioned so maybe it’s not lesser known, but jackfruit is amazing. SEA like most amazing fruit but have seen it more often in North America. Fresh, not the prepped and sauced vegan style.
I went to school in Hawai’i and discovered strawberry guava - the plant is an invasive species that chokes the life out of everything it can, but it bears the most delicious fruit.
Rambutan
Where i live, mayapple! But you can’t buy them anywhere, you have to just pick them. Luckily they’re all over the place lol
It’s also important remember that you need to wait until they turn yellow before you pick and eat them
oh yes, i probably should have mentioned that… don’t poison yourself, sorry!
Unfortunately, where I live the deer get to most of them before I do lol
My favourite langsat. It’s sweet and sometimes sour, flesh is like rambutan.
Yessss. I’m only just realizing how many foods I don’t know english names to lol.
The english name of langsat is langsat, haha!
Lmao yeah thats what I didnt know, I googled longsat and realized oh I know this by a local name. The word Longsat is whats new to me.
feijoa, a South American fruit that made it to New Zealand - now just about every backyard in NZ has one, or many of them
Loquats are sweet, lightly tart and deliciously juicy. A bit like a very firm peach or plum.
Longyan (dragon eyes) are like lychees but smaller and yellow. They’re less sweet than lychees (which tbh I often find a little cloying) and maybe a little more flavourful.
Love longan. Also very photogenic. (Sometimes I buy fruit primarily to photograph.)
Image isn’t working for me unfortunately but yeah, they real pretty. I first had some in Taiwan, the owners of a small cafe gave us a branch from their tree.
I’ve been so unlucky finding them. Each time I go to an Asian market they never have any Longan or lychee available lol.
Hopefully I can find some this week
If you have an Hmart they often have them seasonally.
I’ll have to try there again. It’s definitely worth going through the traffic for it.
Technically not my area, but mangosteen. Mostly grown in South-East Asia, it’s a sour sweet fruit with the texture and structure like a soft orange, and one big seed per segment. It is seriously delicious.
Just googled it and it looks BEAUTIFUL. I want this asap.
I fucking hate the seeds though. It’s like, you’re getting to this sweet and juicy part of the segment’s flesh, and then the seed just stops you cold from enjoying the fruit.
I just saw mangosteen in Chinatown Manhattan… First time seeing them in the us!!
Macadamia nuts. Not the roasted ones, not the shelled dry ones you can buy in the store. They are garbage compared to the unshelled ones, even if you do need a special device to open them and they can be very frustrating to eat fresh.
When they’re freshly opened, they’re opaque brighter white, sweet and even a little juicy. It’s a completely different experience from the ones you can buy off the shelf. It’s honestly a shame Australia doesn’t have a bigger market for the fresh ones.
Jujubes. They’re like a dryer sweeter small apple. They don’t need a lot to grow where I am and there’s hundreds per tree.
Had em, unfortunately not the biggest fan. Not the kinda thing I’d go outta my way for.
