Fruits name starts with the letter " Y "

1     Yucca Fruits                                                                    

       Yucca - yucca baccata (datil yucca or banana yucca)     

    The species gets its common name "banana yucca" from its banana-shaped fruit. The specific epithet "baccata" means 'with berries'. Banana yucca is closely related to the Mojave yucca, with which it is interspersed where their ranges overlap; hybrids between them occur. Yuccas are drought tolerant, succulent plants, and while they are native to the desert.

      Banana yucca is one of about 40 yucca species, all of which are native to the New World. Most yuccas have dry hard fruits, but the fruits of banana yucca are fleshy and succulent. They look roughly like short fat green bananas, thus the name.

      The flowers of many yucca species are edible.  The fleshy fruit is 8–18 cm long and 6 cm across, cylindrical, and tastes similar to sweet potato. It is still a popular food amongst Mexican Indians. 
      Besides food, yuccas have many other traditional uses. The leaf blades can be woven into baskets, used to make brushes, or with the fleshy leaf tissue removed the remaining stiff fibers can be made into a combination needle and thread. 

       

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2    Yuzu Fruit                                                         

      Yuzu - citrus junos

      Yuzu  is a hybrid citrus fruit also known as yuja. It originated in China over 1,000 years ago and now grows in Japan, Korea, and other parts of the world. The fruit is small, with a diameter of 2–3 inches (5.5–7.5 cm). It has a relatively thick yellow skin and is more aromatic and much sourer than other citrus fruits. 

       Yuzu forms an upright shrub or small tree, which commonly has many large thorns. Leaves are notable for a large, leaf-like petiole, resembling those of the related kaffir lime and ichang papeda, and are heavily scented.

          Yuzu closely resembles sudachi (a Japanese citrus) in many regards, though unlike the sudachi, yuzu eventually ripen to an orange colour and there are subtle differences between the flavours of the fruit.  Yuzu is also known for its characteristically strong aroma, and the oil from its skin is marketed as a fragrance. 

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 3   Yumberry Fruits

Other names: Yangmei, Red bayberry, Yamamomo, Chinese strawberry, Waxberry, China Bayberry, Japanese Bayberry.

The Yumberry is an evergreen plant which produces delicious round fruits of a purple colour. 

Yumberry fruit is mainly cultivated in the sub-tropical region of southeast China. It is a most wonderful fruit native of China. The fruit has been cultivated and used for nearly thousands of years in China. It has a bright-coloured round appearance the variety of colours are red, pink, white, and purple.

It is a subtropical tree grown for its sweet, crimson to dark purple-red, edible fruit. The tree is used as ornaments for parks and streets. It is also a traditional tree used in composing Classical East Asian Gardens.

Yumberry is a unique Chinese fruit crop. Yumberry fruit has a bright-coloured round appearance with juicy sugar-acid balanced flesh containing high nutritional value. The fruit is typically a stone fruit with delicate papillae - like pulp. Yumberry is harvested and marketed in a narrow window (June to July), and difficult to be stored.

Yumberry, also called red bayberry or yamamomo, is a type of sweet fruit native to China. Yangmei is very high in vitamin C, and the fruit has been cultivated for thousands of years in China, where today it is eaten raw, fermented into alcoholic beverages, and used to produce a distinct reddish dye, which is extracted from the bark of the tree. The main use for this type of tree is for ornamental purposes, in parks and gardens, but the red flesh has quite distinctive sweet and sour flavours, though half of the entire fruit is taken up by the huge seed.

The fruit is actually called yang-mei. The way the Chinese pronounce it in their dialect is 'yang-mee', which sounds similar to yummy. So Charles Stenftenagel (a garden products importer from Indiana), coined the name yumm-berry in 2003 when he was visiting a friend in Shanghai who owned a company that bottled the juice. So the name yumm-berry is relatively new. In England it is called red bayberry or Chinese bayberry.

Yumberry grows up to 30 feet (10 meters) in temperate environments. The Yumberry fruit ripens on the tree during the summer months, with a very small ripeness window of only a few weeks. The tree is an evergreen, with pale silvery bark and slender green leaves. Yumberry is often planted in areas with poor soil because it is a nitrogen fixer and will replenish the soil it is grown on. For this reason, it makes an excellent crop for fields that need long term nitrogen restoration, because it will produce profitable fruit while renewing the soil.

It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree growing up to 10 m high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. It tolerates poor acidic soils. The root system is 5–70 cm deep, with no obvious taproot.

The fruit is spherical, The surface colour is typically a deep, brilliant red, but may vary from white to purple. The flesh colour is similar to surface colour, or somewhat lighter. The flesh is sweet and very tart. At the centre is a single seed, with a diameter about half that of the whole fruit.

Yumberry fruit is, unfortunately, highly perishable. In China, it is often pressed into juice that can be transported or fermented, because it will keep longer than the delicate fruit. If consumers can obtain yumberry they should plan to store it under refrigeration for no more than one week, wrapped and kept away from other fruit.

for  more  information and  images of  this  fruit -- go to the link  -  Yumberry fruit

                                                                   

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