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I have seen thousands of pine cones in my life, living in France, and none of them have hairs on top, not such a different coloration between the body and the h
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
I have seen thousands of pine cones in my life, living in France, and none of them have hairs on top, not such a different coloration between the body and the head.
It doesn't mean it's a pineable though, Occam razor would lead me to thing it's more likely a fruit most people are not accustom to see.
E.G: figue de barbarie: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figue_de_Barbarie https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figue_de_Barbarie (and if you wonder, it's very good)
Not that I think it's a figue de barbarie, the body matches, but not the head, yet there are a lot of fruits people don't know about, or it could have been a fruit that disappeared since. After all, we lost a whole class of banana type, why not other things?
- gpderetta 6y ago> figue de barbarie (and if you wonder, it's very good) they are also quite commonly grown and eaten in Italy, but apparently they are also of American origin.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoAll cacti except one species are from the Americas. That one species also somehow managed to colonise equatorial/southern Africa in addition to South America.
- Clewza313 6y agoThose are called prickly pears in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_ficus-indica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_ficus-indica
- Y_Y 6y agoBy the way, in English I'd call this a prickly-pear. Wikipedia lists the following synonyms: Indian fig opuntia, Barbary fig, cactus pear, prickly pear, spineless cactus, and tuna (borrowed from Mexican Spanish).