Carica papaya
Papaya Flowers and Fruit
fruit
Ubiquitous Fruit
Chrysobalanus icaco
Cocoplum shrubs are everywhere in Southwest Florida, and the fruit is high in vitamin C.
Chrysobalanus icaco
Tasty trailside nibbles, cocoplums are often found near water. Click here for a cocoplum jam recipe.
Naples Botanical Garden Littoral Zone
Backyard Stars
Averrhoa carambola
Averrhoa carambola
Averrhoa carambola
A Pineapple Grows in D.C.
Ananas comosus (pineapple)
Snow Dipped Gumballs
Sweet Summer
Late Tuesday afternoon, two young rabbits and a mouse joined me along a stretch of dirt road to pick these juicy bites.
More Orbs!
Twice as many melons swell on the vine this summer, and they need support before the all-you-can-eat buffet opens for insects on the ground. Click here to see last year’s crop, and stay tuned for a new and improved hosiery hammock/trampoline design…
Savoring Honeydewed Success
From short, anxious runners wrangled from the edges of a 3×5 ft raised bed back in May, to scores of tenacious tendrils gripping a homemade bamboo trellis, one flower that took to paintbrush IVF turned out delicious. Continue reading
Pantyhose Honeydew Hammocks
The melon above sat on the ground just long enough for something to bore a pencil sized hole into the outer rind. Now suspended, hopefully that’ll be the last visitor until havest. More hammocks…
Strawberry, Fragaria ananassa
The berry above shared forty degree temperatures with pumpkins on porches.
Pedagogy of the Plants 