To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Elephant Heart plum
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:33:00 -0800
Pitch pockets. Considered to be a result of the flesh growing at an uneven rate, causing an internal crack that fills with sap that becomes hard.
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On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:
Elephant Heart plums are delicious when they don't develop those hard spots near the pits, a condition that Lon identified for me but my memory has lost temporarily. Pitch something?