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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2014, 22:05:30 PM »
It's nothing like a quince and neither do the leaves look anything like quince tree leaves.

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2014, 22:17:29 PM »
Could it be a quince in it's early stages (I'm being serious now  :) )

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2014, 22:22:18 PM »
but as KKOB correctly points out  (ouch that hurts) the leaves are not like those of the quince and they wouldn't change.

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2014, 22:30:20 PM »
To be honest I thought he said the leaves DO look like quince leaves :/

I'll go with squapple again

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2014, 22:41:51 PM »
I've drawn a blank on all the plant picture sites (I even googled squapple on the off chance) ;D

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2014, 22:44:49 PM »
Young Starfruits?

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2014, 22:47:14 PM »
just on the off chance that it helps here's sone other photo's....








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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2014, 22:49:07 PM »
The ones in the last photo are called flowers

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2014, 22:50:35 PM »
Not starfruit with that flower

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Re: Does anyone know the name of this fruit?
« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2014, 22:52:44 PM »
It's this....

Yellow oleander

Cascabela thevetia

Scientific Name
Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold
Synonyms
Cascabela peruviana (Pers.) Raf.
Cerbera peruviana Pers.
Cerbera thevetia L.
Thevetia nerifolia Juss. ex Steud.
Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) K. Schum.
Thevetia thevetia (L.) Millsp.

Common Names
be still tree, be-still tree, bestill tree, Captain Cook tree, Cook tree, dicky plant, foreigner's tree, lucky nut, luckynut, Mexican oleander, still tree, yellow oleander

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