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Hedge apple?

@at Osage Orange is my guess.

@at @Fawn This is fascinating 🙂 I’d never heard of hedge apple before and so looked it up. Love the pictures I found and all the details, as well as the fact that it’s also called monkey ball or monkey brains 😛

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

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Yay!

@at It looked like several different fruits I knew of from Sri Lanka in different ways, but the fact that it is in the mulberry family makes sense since (after the fact) it does look like mulberry fruit 🙂

Cut open, it reminded me a bit of guava, probably because of the distinct inner/outer areas. But it also looked like breadfruit from the outside, though breadfruit has more distinctive spikes/rideges on the outside.

It also reminded me a bit of soursop/custard apple, but only in passing …

But all these similarities is what got me interested in looking it up. But given how it’s native range is so small, I’m now curious to see if these similarities are just visual or if there are indeed connections … This could be a rather deep rabbit hole 😀

@at Till today I thought that Paw Paw was just a different spelling of papaw/papaya which is found all over Asia 🙂 I just realized that they were a totally different fruit …

The texture and the seed in the Wikipedia article does kind of remind me of soursop/custard apple, but the flesh of the soursop is usually white. I’m really curious now to see what the taste is like but probably not gonna happen 😛