gardengus said: Looks tasty
do you eat it with a spoon ? or peel and eat ?
gardengus said: May I add yummy looking to
Do you think growing conditions could have a lot to do with flavor?
Like better in some years/areas ?
I have noticed it in (other fruit) peaches for example.
In the Dictionary of PLANT BREEDING:
metaxenia:the influence of pollen on maternal tissue of a fruit outside the embryo sac (i.e., edible fruit tissues); the phenomenon is seen in >>> dates and sometimes called zenia bot
date palm:
A palm tree; it has a subtropical, semiarid origin in the Middle East; this is possibly the oldest plant domestication in the world; the plant is dioecious and breeding is exceptionally difficult; propagation by seeds is a waste of time, because of the loss of fruit quality, and vegetative propagation with basal suckers is essential;the quality of the date fruit is affected by metaxenia; a new-encounter killer disease "Bayoud disease" (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. albidinis) is spreading inexorably from Morocco eastwards; the female tree produces the brown oblong fruit, dates, in bunches weighing 9–11 kg; dates are an important source of food in the Middle East, being rich in sugar; they are dried for export; the tree also supplies timber and materials for baskets, rope, and animal feed; the most important species is native to northern Africa, Southwest Asia, and parts of India, it grows up to 25 m high; a single bunch can contain as many as 1,000 dates; their juice is made into a kind of wine; Phoenix dactylifera (Palmae), 2n = 2x = 36; 2C DNA content 1.9 pg fore hort
