i missed the fruit and vegetable section during my last two visits to the horticulture park at hyderabad road.
came across some not so common fruits in this section. most of the fruit trees are pot grown and quite a number of them were already bearing fruit. there is this biriba from brazil which i mistook for a custard apple. it belongs to the same family as the soursop. like custard apples, the over-ripe fruit will become unattractively black.
one of the fruit trees laden with lots of fruit is the water apple. although the pale green water apples were not big, there were so many on the tree that it seemed the whole tree was bogged down by them.
another not so common fruit plant found in the garden is the raspberry which thrives in cooler temperate climate.
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There's a big water apple tree at Bishan Park. It is just next to the Nparks office and nobody dares to pluck the fruits for fear of getting fined, I guess. What a waste.
I had a huge water apple tree in my Ipoh house. Bore lots of fruits but becos we only go back once a year, and the tree grew too big and required lots of trimming each time we went back ... so we chopped it down. Again what a waste. The fruits were big and tasty!
i remember when we ate water apple - especially the not so sweet ones - in the old days, we would eat it with dark soya sauce and sugar.
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