There seems to be loads of cool and unique fruit in Japan. I've put this fruit into two groups, not botanical or anything, just two groups that make sense to me.
Group 1 is fruit that you can find in other countries but that Japan has specific varieties of. This group includes kaki/persimmon, kyoho grapes, strawberries, nashi pears, melons and peaches. The strawberries especially have loads of varieties, and I didn't even know that there were really varieties of strawberries. Never thought about it.
Group two is stuff that is native to Japan, or they developed there and you can't get it in other places. This group includes ume plums (that they make those dried plums, umeboshi, from that are really sour), a whole bunch of cool-sounding citrus fruit like mikan, yuzu and shikwasa, and a really weird fruit I heard about recently called an akebi. An akebi is super weird because it's light purple on the outside, and the fruit inside looks like an alien egg, seriously. And you can even use the outside of the fruit as a vegetable.
Have you tried any of these/what are they like? Do you know any other Japanese fruit?
Group 1 is fruit that you can find in other countries but that Japan has specific varieties of. This group includes kaki/persimmon, kyoho grapes, strawberries, nashi pears, melons and peaches. The strawberries especially have loads of varieties, and I didn't even know that there were really varieties of strawberries. Never thought about it.
Group two is stuff that is native to Japan, or they developed there and you can't get it in other places. This group includes ume plums (that they make those dried plums, umeboshi, from that are really sour), a whole bunch of cool-sounding citrus fruit like mikan, yuzu and shikwasa, and a really weird fruit I heard about recently called an akebi. An akebi is super weird because it's light purple on the outside, and the fruit inside looks like an alien egg, seriously. And you can even use the outside of the fruit as a vegetable.
Have you tried any of these/what are they like? Do you know any other Japanese fruit?
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