For sometime, this fruit puzzled me as well.....unusual colour for a fig....from the garden of a certain Goa Book Club/GoaNet member from Borda.......one finds the strangest of fruit in goan gardens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoart/5447289930/in/photostream/ On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Edgar Silveira <ed...@goencar.com> wrote: > Thank you for clarifying. > Am not sure where I got these berries/fruit from..likely the bills of Sancole. > >>>> There used to be several types of berries and as wilderness withered, many >> spices may have become extinct or rare. > > So what are the berries aside from the chunna, kandem, charrem? > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, MD <mmdme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Message: 7 >> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:54:29 +0530 >> From: Edgar Silveira <ed...@goencar.com> >> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" >> <goanet@lists.goanet.org> >> Subject: [Goanet] Is this the summer berry called bendsem? Take a >> look. >> Message-ID: >> <calhmluk-gs39v9dvbttzdfm4pr3hker4_8egru0udbclffs...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectedgar/6961010854/in/photostream >> >> Apologies if I posted this earlier. >> Am trying to hunt down this rarely seen summer berry.......called >> bend-shem. This picture was taken last year and I cannot remember >> where I found these berries. >> >> Thank you. >> >> The picture is of a wild fruit, what we may call 'vovLam'. These are not >> shrub berries; rather the vovlam tree grows to a height. >> >> >> BeNsam are of two varieties, purple and white when ripe, these beNsam are >> juicy berries. (Like smaller varieties of Zamblam). Bensam shrubs, if >> allowed, grow into midsized trees. Varieties of cute little birds flock on >> these to devourer these Bensams during rainy season and children also >> relish them. White varietiy are generally not consumed by humans. >> >> >> There used to be several types of berries and as wilderness withered, many >> spices may have become extinct or rare. >> >> >> MD