We have had this tree in our back yard since we bought the house and this year it suddenly began producing fruit. I have never seen anything like it. It smells very sweet sort of like papaya and is pink on the inside and light green on the outside. Any ideas??

Whoa!
It's not possible to tell from your picture because there is no indication of size. They LOOK like the fruit of the Manchineel tree.
Very dangerous and poisonous. Ask a local before going any further.
Mick

RA - Angela says it's Guava

Mickey, the size is about 3-5 inches. Oh, I am the local, they are growing in my yard and no one around here knows what they are! I'm going to look up the tree you mentioned

They look exactly like the picture Timmmmmy posted inside but the outside is different and the leaves look a little different, maybe they just aren't ripe yet.

Thanks for the help, I'm going to keep working on it.

RosAnne, Do you know anyone that works at or runs a greenhouse or in the produce section of a big grocery store? I was thinking at first by your description that it could be a pawpaw, but not by the picture. Good luck - maybe you'll find out they make great tropical drinks with a little rum, LOL

Do you have a county agricultural center? We do here, and they are the experts with free advice for anything that you have growing.....

Rosanne rosanne RosannE...how could you NOT recognize that fruit...


I had to search for the pic, and it took me down memory lane...boy did we have a good time...
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OMG Cynde, thanks for the laugh this morning. I saw that squash in the grocery store and just started cracking up, a lady next to me asked me if I was okay! I hope you are bringing one to the NEMM!

here are a few fruit pictures from my yard. The first one are my lemons (TOM BEHAVE! They are very large, the size of a small melon.) The next are my grapefruits and the last one is the mystery fruit tree. As you can see we do not have fall colors other than green.

NICE pictures! How cool to have those growing right in your yard.
I'm no help with the fruit mystery. Hope you find out so we'll all know

Mmmmmmmmmmm, lemon flavored melons - niccccccccce!!!

simma down tom...simma down...got that pillowcase ready for the NEMM?

Jerry, you have that kind of fruit on the East Coast? I can do a repeat if you give me enough wine...

R.A. is that growing on a tree on bonaire or at your house in CA? if it's on bonaire it looks like a calabas....if it's in CA i don't know what it is. but since you picked it and cut it open are didn't die or end up with blisters all over your hands i'd guess it's not a machineel.

Tink, ahl simmad down. pillowcase jus hed all the drool washed outah it. Just need to patch the two holes and set to go.

Looks like a guava!!!

Pat, it's growing in my yard in California. I am going to try and find time tomorrow to bring it to a nursery. I am on a fruit quest now! I think it may be a guava but we'll see.

Let us know RA -- we've got all kinds of freaky fruits out here in Cali

and then there are the things growing on trees

boom, LOL! I've grown very accustom to many of the freaky fruits!

Ah
I assumed you were talking about Bonaire. That lets the Manchineel out. No idea on that one.
Mick

R.A., I looked up your pics and have come to the conclusion the fruit you posted is kinda green and round thingy. Glad I could help.

There my job is done for the day now to wait until 4 am to arrive so I can make coffee and start anew. Brewing it any earlier might be indicative of my having an addiction

Rest well, Tom.




Do you just require so little sleep? I'll be snuggled into my blankies until at least 9 tomorrow.....

Thanks Gail, the wind is howling, the brain won't stop (not that there is anything important being solved in there) so I am back down stairs with my laptop, being entertained by two 20lb cats. When I turned one of the lights in the kitchen on, they thought it was morning - already. Run, chase, howl ........ "tag your it". Who needs t.v. when you have fur kids to keep you entertained?

Wilbur even wants to be fed, that is not unusual

Tom, as usual the information you have provided is priceless. Nonetheless, I am taking the fruit to the fruit people and asking for an expert opinion.

Hope you had fun with the furkids, one of mine is having a pukey kind of day and the mini one has chewed a hole in her cage! I told Rianna the pink princess palace hamster cage was a bad decision but she didn't listen!

Ya just had to say pukey didn't you?!?! Just walked in started to pet Boris and he hackada-hackada-hacada-chunk almost on my foot.