Article**: Naturalist.
Persimmon must be familiar to everyone, all over the country, and the varieties are varied - Guangxi Gongping Yue persimmon, Guangdong Beishuo sweet persimmon, Fujian Zhenghu persimmon, Hubei Luotian sweet persimmon, Henan Mianchi ox heart persimmon, Hebei Yuan's Dahongpao persimmon, Lintong Huojing persimmon, Beijing's Fangshan Mopan persimmon ......I won't tell the name of the dish.
I just know that I love to eat the "tongue" in the core
But recently, I have brushed up on some strange "persimmons" that I have never seen at all, called"Coconut persimmon".It's frighteningly high, and some can even be sold for more than a thousand yuan each!
Are these persimmons made of gold or gold? In this article, let's "seek persimmons from facts" and see the true face of these persimmons that sell sky-high prices!
Both the coconut and the persimmon indicate that this child has nothing to do with me
Coconut persimmon, also called coconut fruit, so is this a coconut cheat or a persimmon splitting its legs? Is this a new variety of coconut and persimmon hybrid?
It's a bit like a coconut, but what about a persimmon?
No, no, the coconut persimmon, whose scientific name is quararibea cordata, is a plant of the genus Guara and Olive in the Malvaceae family, and it has nothing to do with coconut persimmons, but is closer to cotton. In fact, coconut persimmon has long been considered to belong to the ceibaceae family in the past, and only recently has it been classified in the malvaceae family.
What are the similarities with cotton?
This change is too complicated to say. To put it simply, according to the latest molecular systematics research, the traditional Malvaceae family is more reasonable and does not need to be changed, but the close relatives of the Malvaceae family: Sycamoreaceae, Kapok and Lindenaceae are too chaotic and must be overhauled.
For example, coconut persimmon, most studies have found that although the coconut persimmon looks somewhat similar to the traditional species of the Malvaceae family, it can be said that it is very different, but it is indeed closer to the Malvaceae family than its old home Kapokaceae. This makes it difficult for scientists to either let the coconut persimmon stand on its own and add a small family, or let it join the traditional malvaceae family.
Hibiscus is a well-known species in the Malvaceae family.
Moreover, there are very, very many such cases among the relatives of the Malvaceae family, and if you want to distinguish them all according to kinship, you have to split them into more than 10 families. In the end, the scientist said, tired! No more! A dozen of us are better than anything else! Then the Malvaceae family merged all its chaotic relatives into a superfamily of nine subfamilies. The coconut persimmon was also assigned to the malvid subfamily in the Malvaceae family.
Coconut persimmons are native to the Amazon rainforests of South America. Competition among tropical rainforest trees is fierce, and if the height is not high enough, the flowers will be blocked by other trees on the branches, and the birds flying in the sky will hardly be visible. Therefore, in order to let pollinators see their flowers, coconut persimmons simply let the flowers grow directly on the old stems or trunks of trees, giving off aroma and making it easy for animals walking through the rainforest to find it. The researchers found that there are 12 species of mammals in the rainforest, as well as a variety of birds and insects, that pollinate it.
Coconut persimmon flowers that grow on old stems or trunks, a phenomenon called "old stem flowers", are very common in tropical rainforests. Source: Russell Cumming
Quararibea Funebris, another tree of the same genus, is known for its floral scent. In Mexico, it is known as the funeral tree, and its dried flowers are said to retain their fragrance for decades, so it is often used in funerals to keep the fragrance of tombs.
The Aztecs of Mexico called the flowers of the quararibea funebris "cacao flowers", but it has nothing to do with the chocolate cacao tree. Instead, the locals use its flowers as spices when making cocoa drinks. Source: Eva Lepiz
Having said all this, how to eat coconut persimmons, and are they delicious? Eh, eating coconut persimmons, first of all, you can't be in a hurry, friends who often eat coconut persimmons know that there are a lot of unripe coconut persimmon fiber is not delicious, and only after ripening is the fiber is degraded. How can you tell if the fruit is ripe? It's very simple, just look at the fruit pedicle, and once a distinct yellow circle appears around the fruit pedicle, then it's time to eat.
Look at this yellow circle, and the yellow circle will be ripe. Learned! Can't try!
Source: Pardess Farms
Some people say it tastes like a sweet pumpkin, with hints of mango and apricot. After cutting, you can see that the fruit is divided into two layers, the outer layer is slightly harder, and the taste is like cantaloupe, and the inside of the fruit is very soft, like a mango. The flesh inside is soft enough to be sucked and eaten, so its other name is chupa chupa, which means "suck" in Spanish.
I believe that our readers have eaten everything and look forward to the comment section.
Source: Year of the Durian
Although coconut persimmon has been fried to more than 1,000 yuan in China, it is only a common fruit on the street in South America.
If you move this stall to the country, it will be developed!
Source: hiperion93
However, in recent years, China has begun to introduce cultivation, with plants introduced in Taiwan bearing fruit for the first time in 19 years, and plants in Hainan also bearing fruit in 22 years.
As soon as Hainan's coconut persimmon came to fruition, it appeared on a variety show.
Source: Variety show "The Band's Seaside".
I hope that the domestic fruit industry practitioners will make persistent efforts to bring down the ** to their families!
These persimmons are also quite expensive, but I can try them!
Coconut persimmon is finished, but at present, you may not be able to afford to eat, I will introduce two kinds of "persimmon" that are a little cheaper to satisfy your cravings.
The first is white persimmon, also known as ice cream fruit. Like the coconut persimmon, it is also inseparable from the persimmon, and the scientific name is casimiroa edulis, which belongs to the genus Herbaceae.
White persimmon and white persimmon flowers.
Source: Glezah
It is also produced in the Americas. Native to Mexico and Central America. The flesh of the white persimmon is soft, melts in the mouth, and is completely free of fiber. The taste is sweet but not sour, as if it has a mixture of tropical fruits such as mango, shakya, and papaya.
It's delicious to look at.
Source: takoradee
And the merchant will repeatedly emphasize that this fruit must be put in the refrigerator for a period of time before eating. When frozen, the flesh of the white persimmon is denser, as if eating ice cream, so it is also called ice cream fruit. There are many cultivars of white persimmons, and there are subtle differences in taste between different varieties, such as honey, caramel, milk, etc., and you can use it to open an ice cream stand.
But some people taste the pepper flavor from it, because in the Rutaceae family, the closest thing to it is not oranges, but ......Sichuan pepper, so it is very normal to taste the pepper flavor.
American fruits, but Sichuan desserts.
So why does it taste like ice cream? Actually, if you think about it, there is nothing special about ......Fruits with high starch or fat content generally have a creamy taste, such as bananas, mangoes, avocados, etc., and can also achieve an effect similar to ice cream after freezing.
Silently find a banana meal replacement.
There is another expensive persimmon - black persimmon, also called chocolate persimmon. It is still from the Americas, native to Mexico, Central America and Colombia. Unlike the previous fruits called persimmons but completely unrelated to persimmons, the scientific name of black persimmon is diospyros nigra, and it is finally a persimmon of the persimmon family persimmon family!
The flowers of black persimmons are similar to ordinary persimmon flowers.
Source: Tatiana Gerus
But it is also a little different from the domestic persimmon, it will not turn yellow and red after it is ripe, the skin is still green, but the flesh inside will turn black, it is really not bad, it looks like this, it looks like chocolate pudding when cut, which is why it is named chocolate persimmon. And it tastes very smooth and silky, and it does have a texture similar to pudding or mousse.
In fact, pudding is so expensive nowadays that it's not worth trying it.
Source: Alesh Houdek
Does it really taste chocolate? It does seem to taste a little, but some people think that the taste has nothing to do with chocolate at all, it is a sweet persimmon flavor. If you just want to eat chocolate-flavored fruits, don't expect too much from black persimmons......
Whether it is ice cream persimmon or chocolate persimmon, these two fruits have a relatively long history of introduction and cultivation in China, so ** is not so expensive, about 20-50 yuan a, if you are really curious, you can still bear the pain to buy one to taste.
Called a misunderstanding of the persimmon
Now we see three strange "persimmons", although their names all have the word "persimmon", but **varied, why are they given these names? Just because it's like a persimmon?
This can be an intricate misunderstanding.
First of all, in the Americas, these fruits are collectively referred to as "sapote", which refers to the soft and edible fruits of the Nahua word "tzapotl" of the Aztecs of Mexico. The Aztecs named a large number of fruits that contained tzapotl, such as the black persimmon named tliltzapotl (tliltic means black), the white persimmon named cochitzapotl (cochiliztli means sleep, because white persimmon seeds are poisonous and can make people sleepy), and the papaya was named chichihualtzapotl (chichihualli means breast), The name Annona is ilamatzapotl (ilama is granny) and sapodilla is named tzicozapotl (tzictli is gum), and after the Spaniards who colonized the Americas learned the word, they used sapote zapot more widely to refer to various fruits, such as coconut persimmon, although distributed in South America, the Aztecs in Mexico have not seen it, but it can also be called South American Sapote.
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