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a custard apple Mark Twain crowned the most delicious fruit known to man
means A tropical fruit with green scaly skin and sweet, creamy white flesh tasting of banana, pineapple, and vanilla, native to the Andes.
from From Spanish chirimoya, borrowed in turn from Quechua, the language of the Inca — the name is usually traced to chiri (cold) and muya (seed or seeds), a nod to the plant's liking for the cool highlands of the Andes where it grows. Spanish colonists carried both the fruit and its Quechua name out into the wider world.
- twain approved
- called it deliciousness itself by the explorer's praise
- toxic seeds
- crushed seeds are insecticidal and dangerously poisonous
- flavor mashup
- tastes like banana, pineapple, and vanilla custard
- hand pollinated
- farmers fertilize each flower with a paintbrush
- andes native
- grew wild across ancient Peru and Ecuador