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    1. Yellow Tamarillo
    You mentioned them being overgrown. This would possibly cause, small fruit, as plant is not getting adequate light to grow strongly, and less 'sugar's' in the fruit due to lack of sunlight. That one you cut open seems not ripe. Just like the red ones, they should be soft when ripe.

    2. Persimmon (Edit- No.. cape gooseberry)

    3 Blue berry - read up on how to care for blueberry, they like different conditions to other plants, (and from memory), fruit on second year wood. Given they prefer colder climates, I'm surprised to see it fruiting so well in Kamo.

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    Yeah, 1 is clearly yellow tamarillo

    2 - I doubt that it is persimmon - it looks too small. I know that covered fruit trees will produce smaller fruit - but look at the size of it against the potato peeler - that's way too small for a persimmon - even a stunted one ... it could be a small guava - I just planted a guava tree and the fruit on it were about that size - I expect them to get bigger as the tree grows.

    3 Yeah - I thought this is a blueberry ... mainly from the shape and colour of the leaves, and the way the fruit is on the branches (as well as the colour). That's the way our juvenile blueberries looked a couple of months ago ... But it's hard to get an idea of size, and we can't see the underside of the fruit, which would tell us definitely .. should look like this .. and don't (but the angle is not great either) .. so now I am not so sure





    Number three also reminds me of a tree I have seen - but I can't remember what it is ... and I'm pretty sure its an ornamental, not an edible ... the fruit is about the same size as a blueberry, but not nearly as abundant or clumped as blue berries are, asdn the berries are hard, not soft, and it's a large tree ...
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    2. Sorry... cape gooseberry is what I was thinking of.... just got the name wrong.


    May still be wrong.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by RideLife View Post
    2. Sorry... cape gooseberry is what I was thinking of.... just got the name wrong.


    May still be wrong.....

    Will ask wife when she gets home, "What was the name of that berry plant that used to be in the garden?"
    Nah, it's not physallis / cape gooseberry, they have a papery parachute around them & grow on a shrub. Defo same fambly, though. They do look like the mutant off spring of a tomato & persimmon liaison.

    I'm leaning towards another variety of tree tomato, like the tamarillo.
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    It could be a Mellow Yellow Tamarillo

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    Not anything like our cape gooseberries. Have you eaten any? are they really bitter? Did you halucinate?
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    Quote Originally Posted by unstuck View Post
    Not anything like our cape gooseberries. Have you eaten any? are they really bitter? Did you halucinate?
    I did wonder. OP been quiet. Stuck in the dunny?
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    1 Yellow tamarillo/tree tomato (same thing but depends on your age what you know it as)

    2 Not persimmon - too many residual petals (calyx), persimmon have 4 not 6
    Not guava as guava have no calyx.
    Can't offer any other suggestions

    3 Pretty sure it's coffee (edit; not so sure)

    Take the fruit and leaves down to Subtropica at Waipu. They should be able to ID them, and possibly supplied the plants you have originally.
    Last edited by Naki Rat; 26th June 2013 at 22:28. Reason: changed mind on #3

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    2 has apple-like leaves. But cut fruit looks nothing like crab-apple - so that's my idea shot down...
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    Sorry, dodgy belly!
    First one has been uncovered since sept last year and had the whole summers worth of weather.
    Second one is quite bitter, not something you would eat as a fruit. Not sure why it was planted then?
    Third one is def not blueberry.
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    Eat a handful and see if ya start tripping out, could be sitting on a gold mine.
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