Mystery fruit from Northern California

 

Hi all,

I've got this weird fruit that I found in the Menlo Park, CA, area. I
found it on some tree growing and ate some of them, people told me
they were harmless (but don't know what the name is). They're fairly
small, have a semi-hard spiky outside that one can bite through to get
to the soft, sweet, yellow inner flesh. Any ideas? I've attached some
pictures. Sorry the one with the bowl is discolored.

Pics: http://img197.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=pic0028z.jpg

Thanks!

 

Doagie wrote:

   Lychee nuts, I think.  Normally native to Asia, but also found in
   Mexico.  Don't know how they got up to your area.

                 Sherwin

 


That was my first impression. However, it is not a lychee (the skin
doesn't separate from the inner fruit, and there is no hard nut).
Also, the taste is very different from that of a lychee and the inner
flesh is textured more like that of an overripe peach. The color is
yellow, also like a peach, unlike the white lychee.

Any thoughts?

 



They look something like Ugli fruit, a citric fruit from Jamaica.

Freckles

 

wrote:


I don't think so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugli_fruit

The photos are not very clear (cheapo cell phone camera?), looks more
like a variety of sapote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamey_sapote