What is it?

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I just tried the most amazing fruit. It is called p'tayah(not papaya)

in Hebrew, but I don't know the English name of it.

 

The fruit is about the size of a grapefruit, but more oblong. It's

got a rather thick, smooth, brilliant, hot pink skin with brilliant

green leaf-like extensions on it. (No, I wasn't eating an unfamiliar

mushroom before seeing the thing.) The white flesh is very juicy, but

well-nigh tasteless. It is studded with small black seeds that aren't

bothersome when eating the flesh at all. A bit disappointed that the

fruit has almost no taste I froze chunks of it and had it with other

frozen fruits in a mixed fruit freeze for breakfast.

 

The flesh peels completely away from the skin effortlessly, leaving

the skin intact. If halved the skin would make a novel serving bowl

for smaller fruits - leechees, cherries, berries or balls of melons

would be lovely served thus. It would be most noteworthy at any

dinner party, I'm sure.

 

What *is* that thing?

 

Doreen