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Few years ago I found medlars (German: Mispel) in my local grocery store. Had never seen them before. They look somewhat like apricots but taste like a mix of other fruits. Really tasty for a not so popular fruit. It’s cool to make such a discovery. :)
I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!
I’m not a plant person but I do make my own dyes and pigments from organics. One of the ingredients I use to precipitate the pigment, or as a mordant, which can change the colour, is aluminum sulphate - also used as plant fertilizer to raise soil acidity.
The chemicals that produce colour in plants are super sensitive to PH, there’s a plant based paint company, I think in Europe somewhere, that makes everything from green to red to blue out of just red cabbage.
I don’t know if that’s what’s happening here, but it is indeed super neat.
Who made the bluesimmon
So what are they? My best guesses clockwise from the top:
- Cherry???
- Yangmei/Chinese bayberry
- Apple? But with pink flesh for some reason
- peach? But color is strange
- Some type of persimmon but they’re not normally that blue color, so it may be a less common Diospyros species.
Reverse image search I found somewhere saying they’re Grenadine apples. But there are several types that are pink in the middle. My personal favorite apple ever are Lucy Glo which are also pink 🩷
Persimmon can be blue, but that picture is edited and over-saturated. They’re darker and have a powder coat, like blueberries. Wouldn’t be surprised if the apple picture was also edited, but they can have pink flesh.
