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Mamoncillo / Guinep / Chenet
July 24, 2009 | 19 Comments
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Photographer: Jai
Camera: Canon 300D
Lens: Sigma 18-200 mm
Shutter speed: 1/25 sec
ISO Speed: 100
F-stop: f/5.0
The mamoncillo (Melicoccus bijugatus), also known as mamón (although the word is considered obscene in some Spanish speaking countries), chenet (in Trinidad and Tobago), guaya, gnep, ginep, skinnip (in Jamaica, St. Kitts) genip, guinep, ginnip, kenèp (in Guyana, Haiti, Belize, Bahamas) quenepa (in Puerto Rico), and Spanish lime, limoncillo (in the Dominican Republic), is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalised over a wide area of the American tropics including Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Suriname and the Caribbean…
The fruit, similar to that of the related lychee, is classified as a drupe. A mamoncillo fruit has a tight and thin but rigid layer of skin, traditionally cracked by the teeth. Inside the skin is the tart, tangy, cream pulp of the fruit, which is sucked by putting the whole fruit inside the mouth (the seed takes most of the volume of what is inside the skin). Despite the light color of the fruit’s flesh, the juice stains a dark brown color, and was often used by indigenous Arawak natives to dye cloth. (Source)
DEADLINE: July 30, 2009
Filed Under: Chenet, Guinep, Mamoncillo, Photo Essays, PHOTOGRAPHY, vegetarian recipes, Wordless July
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19 Comments
Gawd! So many varieties in this world! Never knew of them before – My first thought was Lychee too….
Nature’s bounty is amazing.
Have to comment on my namesake post
Been enjoying your photo posts recently! love the bison 
For one minute, I thought how did cooked garbanzo beans go in there! lol…
lovely pics.. can you post the picture of the leaves
we don’t have the leaves.
Beautiful, warm but intense colors in pictures… after a long time I felt a strange flutter in my heart when i saw this photo… love at first sight kind LOL.
does look like lychee.. .wonder if I will find these at the hispanic grocery.
I think I’ve had these before in Mexico, but I can’t remember. Or maybe they go by other name… They look yummy
love those photos!
I haven’t been able to visit your blog for really really long for all those reason I had sent by mail to you. Somehow today I was able to access and it was such a nice visual treat to see all the posts I had missed!!
Stunning! What software are you using to edit your pics? I love visiting your blog and looking at your gorgeous pictures.
photoshop cs3
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Hey everyone!!! If you really want to know what that fruit tastes like, you have to come to my island, Jamaica, in the summer. Right now they are in season and everywhere you go, there are boys and young men walking on the streets selling them. Only JA$50.00 for a large bunch. The money may not mean anything to you, but, just wanted to say. Guineps are just lovely. You don’t even know what you’re missing (had to rub that in
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My husband loves Quenepas…always searching the farmers market for this….the ripe ones taste sweet. I like them too..now lol.
my husband really like it, he had it when was in guyana. i have been looing for guinep for so long . whre can i find them , i live in london. thanks
hola, felicidades muy buenas fotos, si tienes de sus hojas te lo agradecere, tengo alkgunas dudas sobre un arbolito qeu tengo si es mamoncillo y lichi.. saludos
man, i Haven’t had one of this for like a year i miss them so much….-yummy- [ i use to eat this every time in Cuba]
Barbados calls them Ackee