Wednesday, August 20, 2008  Jackfruit season  A house in our
neighborhood has a jackfruit tree with one big fruit growing on
a stem that projects directly from the tree trunk at shoulder
height. The little old Japanese man who lives in the house cuts
down most of the fruits before they are ripe, because the tree
hangs over the sidewalk and a jackfruit to the noggin could be
lethal. But he apparently left the one on the trunk. Today I was
walking by while he was working in his garden picking starfruit
(carambola). The starfruit are ripe now and people are giving
them away all over the place. As he pottered past his jackfruit
tree, he reached out and patted the fruit in a friendly way, as
if to say hello, I'm just passing through, but how are you
today?   mindyfromohio said...  My favorite flavor of vitamin
water has jackfruit in it and I admit to having to look it up on
wikipedia to see what it was.  SEB said...  Well, I'm not much
better; I thought it was a durian until I realized it's not
durian season, and