Last Fruits of Summer

Last Fruits of Summer 

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit. - Henry David Thoreau

Dr Abe V Rotor

An array of local fruits in summer

Top, clockwise: Banana saba variety (Musa paradisiaca), avocado (Persia americana), kamachile (Pithecolobium dulce), sineguelas (Spondias purpurea), and duhat (Syzygium cumini)

 Breadfruit or rimas (Artocarpus communis) prisms the summer sun. 

A bunch of kamias (Averrhoa balimbi) fruits falls off one by one.

 Santol (Sandoricum koetjape) fruits brace the summer wind.  

 Mango (Mangifera indica) fruits litter the ground.

Taming the wild kamachile (Pithecolobium dulce) on the table.  

Local varieties of avocado (Persia americana) ripen 

on the dining table in a day or two.

 

Macopa (Eugenia jambalana) reminds of Christmas in summer.

 Duhat or lomboy (Syzygium cumini) stains teeth and gums, 

and clothes, too.  It makes excellent  red (black) wine. 

 Chico (Achras sapota), once a popular fruit tree on the backyard.

Anonang (Anona  reticulata) Family Anonaceae, relative of atis, 

cherimoya and guyabano.

 

  Profuse fruiting of karamay or karmay (Phyllanthus acidus) 

strains the branches to bend or even break.  

 

 Caimito (Chrysophyllum cainito) is also called star apple 

for its star-shaped cross section.

Bignay (Bugnay Ilk) - Antidesma bunius is native to the Philippines and other tropical countries. It makes an excellent dark table wine  ~