The “Easter Egg” eggplant provides a plant that is as ornamental as it is edible. The small eggplant produces white egg-shaped fruits that resemble hen's eggs, but later develop into pastel colored eggs in shades of yellow and orange.
The white, egg-shaped varieties of the eggplant's fruits are also known as garden eggs, a term first attested in 1811. The Oxford English Dictionary records that between 1797 and 1888, the name vegetable egg was also used.
Canistel is a fruit native to southern Mexico and cultivated in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. It's commonly known also as eggfruit, because of its flesh that is bright egg yolk-yellow colour and when ripe, is smooth and custardy, similar to a hard-boiled yolk.
Eggplant 'White Egg'
Visually striking, white, egg shaped aubergine. Produces attractive white fruits which although they tend to be smaller, have a delicate flavour with a creamy white texture.
Pouteria campechiana (commonly known as the cupcake fruit, eggfruit, zapote amarillo or canistel) is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Garden Egg eggplants are native to sub-Saharan Africa and have been cultivated since ancient times. In the late 1500s, the Garden Egg was introduced to England where it became trendy, earning the fruit it's egg-shaped name and remained in the spotlight until the purple eggplant was introduced from Asia.
The “Easter Egg” eggplant provides a plant that is as ornamental as it is edible. The small eggplant produces white egg-shaped fruits that resemble hen's eggs, but later develop into pastel colored eggs in shades of yellow and orange.
Here's how: In England in the 1700s a new vegetable made an appearance on the culinary scene. This vegetable was white, small, and shaped just like an egg. It didn't take much imagination to decide what to call this new vegetable: eggplant. The name endured, and encompasses the purple varieties, too.
That would be the egg fruit, also known as Canistel and Yellow Sapote. It is not shaped like an egg, but rather, got that name from the internal texture once the fruit is ripened. It also has a similar color to a cooked egg yolk.
“Granadilla” is an orange fruit filled with grey, slimy seeds that frankly, look like frog eggs. The outside is a hard shell, but it is easily breakable with one's thumb.
Its common name is 'poached egg plant' as the middle of the flower looks like the yolk of an egg with the white of the egg around the outside. Insects, especially hoverflies, love to visit these flowers.
Egg fruits are also commonly known as Canistel fruits and are a close relative of the well-known tropical fruit, sapota, or sapodilla. In addition to Canistel, the fruits are sometimes known as Yellow Sapote and are referred to by many other regional names worldwide.
An oval (from Latin ovum 'egg') is a closed curve in a plane which resembles the outline of an egg. The term is not very specific, but in some areas (projective geometry, technical drawing, etc.)
White eggplant fruits look like goose eggs hanging from a bush. While the different varieties do range slightly in taste and texture, one can generally describe the eggplant as having a pleasantly bitter taste and spongy texture.
The matilija poppy, Romnea coulteri, with its huge white blossom and yellow center is one of our showiest and easiest-to-grow water-wise plants. Because of the striking appearance of its flowers, it is also referred to as the fried egg plant.
Caviar lime is an exotic fruit that's considered a microcitrus. Inside, caviar limes (or “finger limes”) have hundreds of teeny, round juice vesicles that resemble caviar. They have a pleasing, seedless crunch and explode in the mouth with a tart, sour citrus juice.
Chirimoya (Cherimoya)
Is a tropical fruit native to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, but it can also be found in Mexico. It is oval in shape, with green skin, and deep indentations, which make it look a little bit like a dragon egg.
A fairy egg forms when a piece of reproductive body tissue or a blood clot separates from the oviduct wall. The hen's egg-producing glands don't know that this tissue is not a yolk, and proceeds to create albumen (egg white), membranes and a shell around it, as it travels through the oviduct.
The Romanesco broccoli (or Roman cauliflower) looks a lot like an alien egg, but is actually an edible flower and variant of traditional cauliflower.
Kars Egg is an exceptional summer squash from Kars of Northeast Turkey. Fruits have the size and shape of an egg. Fruit size ranges from a chicken egg to a duck egg.
The "bird's nest" fungi (Nidulariaceae) are charismatic mushrooms that look like small nests containing multiple tiny eggs. Because the ecological role of bird's nest fungi is to decompose wood, they are extremely common in disturbed areas with plant debris and mulch, such as trails and backyard gardens.
Fruit fly eggs measure only 1/2 mm in length. Under a microscope, they are yellow in color and appear to be the shape of a grain of rice. In optimal temperatures, fruit fly eggs hatch into larvae within 30 hours. These larvae ultimately mature into adults that feed, breed and lay their own generation of eggs.
In spring to early summer most lilly pillies have fluffy white or greenish flowers followed by long lasting red, purple or whitish berries. The fruit matures from December to February, being a pear shaped red berry, known as a Riberry, growing to 13 mm long, covering a single seed, 4 mm in diameter.