Help With Strange Vegetable Id?

[haybilly]

Any clue what this veg might be, said to have the taste of avocado and local name sounds like "sien taw"

[TommoPhysicist]

Sorry different fruit

[haybilly]

What do you mean, TP? That the 'said' local name refers to a different fruit?

[TommoPhysicist]

My mrs. thought it was a variation on Avacado, but I don't think it is.

[haybilly]

I must admit, that's what it looks like to me, except pointy--so, maybe she's closer than we think??

It's the local Chiang Mai name that should help--but I don't speak 'Northern'. Ey-Up!

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Interesting.. Never seen those before.

You didn't buy some?

For me, as soon as I see something queer somewhere, I get some.

[TommoPhysicist]

We need to see one cut in half really.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Ah, found it: เซียนท้อ (Sian Tho)

http://www.google.co.th/search?q=เซียนท้อ&hl=en&hs=IbD&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univwww.google.co.th/search?q=เซียนท้อ&hl=en&hs=IbD&tbm=isch&tbo=u

http://www.aroilanna.com/food/sean-thor/index.shtml

Not sure if this is it exactly or just related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouteria_campechiana

[haybilly]

BINGO--WTK strikes, yet again.

Thanks a bunch--that most certainly does fit the bill.

I can now tell my brother, who actually took the photo.

I like WTK's idea of, anytime he finds something queer he has to have a bit!!!

Sorry for that!

I am actually reticent to try too many weird and wonderful things here--once bitten, etc...

[cooked]

My wife doesn't know and that's the first time she's been stimmied.

[haybilly]

Actually, since it's got a seed it's actually a fruit not a veg.

My daughter just told me that.

[cmsally]

Some of the Thais call it a Taiwanese plum . It would seem to be a relation of the Sapodilla (Lamoot)

Seed looks almost exactly the same.

[CMSteve]

Its actually really good. kind of a cross between an avocado and a mango. got the texture of avocado and a slight sweetness., Be careful though, its got a bitter aftertaste....

[market trader]

I think you should have asked what fruit it was on the organic farming forum. These people are really up on fruits and vegetables including avacados which one poster thought it might be.

[cooked]

Actually, since it's got a seed it's actually a fruit not a veg.

My daughter just told me that.

So vegetables don't have seeds? Everything that flowers makes fruits, containing seeds. Looking forward to feedback from your daughter.

[haybilly]

We'll have to wait for my daughter to wake up--but I do know that that was how she was educated at her school to distinguish between a fruit and a vegetable--I think it helps children grasp the basics.-yes, I have planted carrot seeds, but never remember eating them.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

LOL.

Right. Just about all vegetables do produce flowers and then fruit, but for many vegetables you only eat the leaves, stems, roots or flowers themselves. Then it's not fruit. This only gets confusing with things that are a fruit botanically but considered a vegetable in cooking, such as tomato, cucumber, chilies/peppers, squash, egg plant and so on.

Otherwise only non-flowering plants could ever be vegetables and there aren't too many of those. Mushrooms and seaweed are about the only edible non-flowering plants I can think of.

(I only know these things because of my daughter too. She's in grade two now.)

[daoyai]

WTK.... You must know mushrooms are fungus, not plants...... the confusion (for some) is the different interpretations of culinary terms and botanical terms. To the botanist the fruit carries the seed, so in botanical terms, tomatos, chilis, squash etc. are fruit.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Fair enough.. I wonder if that makes seaweeds the only non-flowering vegetable..?

[daoyai]

Wtk, depends on what you mean by vegetable, many seaweeds reproduce by sporophytes, they release spores, as do most land based ferns, as some fern shoots are eaten as a vegie, (warabe) ..... that is an example of a non-flowering land vegetable.

[Mousehound]

Wtk, depends on what you mean by vegetable, many seaweeds reproduce by sporophytes, they release spores, as do most land based ferns, as some fern shoots are eaten as a vegie, (warabe) ..... that is an example of a non-flowering land vegetable.

I have read that fungi are closer to animals than plants. This makes them even more interesting to study.

[PoorSucker]

I have read that fungi are closer to animals than plants. This makes them even more interesting to study.

Favourite part of rainy season.

Watch fungi grow.

[arunsakda]

What ever it is if you wrap it wih bacon sauté in olive oil and

[arunsakda]

black pepper it will be great.

[cooked]

It's complicated. Seed > Plant> Flower> Fruit containing seeds. Orchids, Beans, Papaya, shrinking violet. All the same process. Other families don't make seeds, as mentioned above, they make spores but don't let's get into that, that's the complicated (and very naughty) bit. Human beings don't have seeds, any questions?

[scotinsiam]

Actually, since it's got a seed it's actually a fruit not a veg.

My daughter just told me that.

Clever lass

[rene123]

Interesting.. Never seen those before.

You didn't buy some?

For me, as soon as I see something queer somewhere, I get some.

That's funny. I knew a man who was always looking for something queer and he usually found it, or should I say "her".