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Mayapple fruit
Podophyllum peltatum
43.0904, -79.0861
Field Notes
Description:
about golf ball size, pulp around seeds, sweet
Habitat:
temperate forest
Notes:
I've seen these plants flowering in the spring but can't remember the name. I did not know they produced this kind of fruit. There was one fruit per plant. I opened the fruit and it smelled very sweet. I don't normally go around eating strange fruit in the forest but this smelled so sweet I had to taste it. Usually poisonous fruits are bitter. I sucked the pulp off the seeds and spit them out. It was very tasty.
Only mature fruit should be eaten.
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