#ebenaceae

[syngoniums]

Texas persimmons (Diospyros texana) are now ripening.

[francescointoppa]

Ancora Alberi. 903. Kaki (Diospyros kaki Thunb., Ebenaceae)

[thinkfvst]

i think the pure unfiltered power this holds managed to wake me up at 3:30am just to unleash itself upon me

[orthocanna]

how could u just mention your shitty old man in the tags and not Extrapolate

HE’S NOT POSTABLE YET but i promise i will post him once i finally settle on his colors. what i do know about him so far:

-is a genuine doctor, possibly without certification but he doesn’t do anything fucked up about it

-worked in a lab that was doing fucked up experiments, decided that sucked, stole a test tube grown lab mistake to keep as a pet (shes just a weird cat) and started doing his own research independently. no i am not sure what he’s doing 

-needs glasses but does not wear them unless he’s seeing to a patient

-the state of his eyebags and stubble would suggest the man hasnt slept since 2002

-look at his cat

[spatheandspadix]

Having a persimmon moment

[syngoniums]

A very large (for the species) Texas black persimmon (Diospyros texana) that has split in half. Both sides are still alive and well.

[syngoniums]

Cacao fruit, dark brown cacao seeds with lighter black sapote seeds, and black sapote fruit.

The cacao pulp tastes a bit like a less complex lychee; it's wrapped tightly to the seed, though once you've broken through the tough skin below the pulp, you can peel it off fairly easily. The pulp is very slippery, so I recommend removing as much as you can before attempting to peel them. For purposes of making chocolate, however, the pulp is left on the seeds to ferment. I'm trying fermentation with fruit from 2 of the 3 pods I had. I'm not sure I have enough to get a good ferment going (heat generated during the process is critical), but we'll see what happens over the next few days.

Black sapote is actually a persimmon, Diospyros nigra. (It's actually less black than our native Texas persimmon, Diospyros texana.) Despite sometimes being advertised as chocolate pudding fruit, it has a mild, non-acidic, non-descript sweet flavor and creamy texture. Despite arriving firm, two of the fruits ripened literally overnight and the others followed soon after. If you ever order any, you better have a plan about what you want to do with them, because they're not small and they won't keep long without some form of processing.

[francescointoppa]

Alberi di Roma. 18. Kaki (Diospyros kaki Thunb., Ebenaceae)