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the tree so committed it grows its grapes straight out of its trunk
means A Brazilian fruit tree, and its sweet dark grape-like berries, famous for fruiting directly on the trunk and branches rather than at the tips.
from From Brazilian Portuguese, borrowed from Tupi-Guarani. The name is usually traced to elements meaning roughly 'fruit in the manner of a bud' or 'place where fruit appears' — fitting for a fruit that erupts straight from the bark. As with many Tupi loanwords, the exact parsing is debated, so treat the literal gloss as likely rather than certain.
- trunk fruit
- Berries erupt directly from the bark, not branches
- fast spoiler
- Rots within days, so rarely sold abroad
- brazilian native
- Wild in Atlantic Forest for millennia
- slow grower
- Can take a decade before first fruiting
- booze potential
- Ferments beautifully into wine and liqueur