Fruit & Veg

 

Most of the fruit and veg section of the supermarket is much the same here than at home, but occasionally you come across something different, such as these large aloe vera leaves.

 

There is some scope for confusion in this collection - although the relative sizes and skin textures give most of them away.  In the centre are star fruit.  Top right papaya with paw-paw below.  Green avocados on the bottom left and a small type of yellow mango at the top left.

 

This fruit was new to me - it was named 'kiwi berry' and its size was somewhere between a gooseberry and a regular kiwi.

 

This plant is sold under the name yucca root but is also known as cassava.  I have seen it here in frozen form and I know that it is used in South American cooking.  In many parts of the world it is an important, if very basic, food crop.