Thursday, April 29, 2010

Feijoas

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Feijoas trees are like weeds in New Zealand. Just about everyone with a tree/bush in their yard has a feijoa tree.

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There are two in the driveway down to the ministry centre, just beyond our front door.

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They taste like .... um ... well like feijoas [Fee-Joe-Ahs]. It's also called a pineapple guava and it's from South America originally - though I wonder if it's been here all along as well.

Oceana loves them, so she's thrilled to have trees that are bursting with fruit.

7 comments:

  1. How cool. Ive never heard of them before.

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  2. Never even heard of those! I wonder if the fruit would ship well. Ya know, if perhaps you wanted to mail a few of them to oh, say...Texas! :)

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  3. too bad you can't get them around here I would love to try them

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  4. Oce is a clever girl. Feijoas are the best.

    That first fabulous photo is like TORTURE Susie, because now I want some too! About to open the last jar of vegemite too - thank goodness Nan and Pop are coming soon with a bag full of supplies - but no feijoas :(

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  5. Love the pic in the vase!
    and seriously those need to grow like weeds down in Southland. They charge something ridiculous like $7-9 per kilo for them only for their in season months and people go nuts when they see them in stores... Weird people - they pay for kiwifruit here too .. from $1-4 per kilo... who PAYS for those? dont you just pick them up by the side of the road?
    also I think the kids from church would have feijoa fights with all the trees in the yard of our hanlen ave place.

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