Ah, Motherwytch, pineapples and mint are a sublime combination whichever way you have them! I enjoy a plate of very finely sliced pineapple lavishly covered in julienned mint. I used to have it with sugar as well but now I have it with a drizzle of agave nectar instead. Pines & mint are a green smoothie taste sensation as well.

Actually, I'm coming to the opinion that just about anything is a green smoothie taste sensation!!!

Silverbeet
Basil
Durian
Persimmons
Pears

Heaven 

Another reason to include me is that I conduct educational walks in a botanic garden and yes I have had botanical training.

For instance I can tell you why a donkey orchid tries to look like a pea flower, how a Kangaroo Paw is pollinated and the groth habit of Corymbia Callophyla.

I rest my case.


joss

I love lemonade fruits and you just reminded me that I saw them at the market on Sunday and forgot to get any! Darn!! I haven't had one this year.

Hybridization is all a matter of how much. For foods that humans have cultivated by exact definition everything is a hybrid. Some foods however are closer to their origin than others... which is why foods like bananas make it to the "oh no it's a hybrid" list more often. Like wheat which is so commercially grown, with such a short life cycle, that massive changes are possible in short periods of time (gluten etc).

I think what's important to look for is 'hybrids' that have had the soul bred out of them. Texas Pear brought up square watermelons to me. You might also think of the grape flavoured apples they are selling in the US! Scary stuff.

That's my opinion anyway!
Sheryl

I've been told lemonade fruit is a cross between an orange and a lemon. It looks like a very large lemon, and tastes like lemon, but has no tartness. They are so yummy!!!

I bought a tray from our wholesaler a couple of months ago but had to return them. They had been picked so early they were small, green and bitter.

This Sunday I will get some... Janita I will pick some up for you too!
Sheryl

Miss gigles hybrids are not to be something to be afraid of at all
 and often occur naturally anyway. Its simply artifically pollinating two different varieties ot the same fruit or vegatable to produce a sweeter, rounder, squarer or any other trait that you wish to see in that plant.

Here its a cross between an orange and a lemon. Both are citrus, but because they have been artificially pollinated from two different species,the resulting fruit is sterile, thereby unable to reproduce its own type by seed. All reproductions then have to be by grafting or taking cuttings.

In nature this is not the optimal way for reproduction, so everybody gets upset. Who cares? Not me thats for sure. There is still plenty of unhybridised fruits out there.

However the number of varieties of wheat have reduced from around 48 that were commonly grown , down to just 11 which are maminly hybrids. Hybrid seeds do not reproduce true to type and have a shorter life expectancy. So if the unthinkable occurs and we cannot sow wheat for 8-10 years, they may not grow at all and then we would have lost this grass for all time.


Joss

Im not usually a huge fan of Dill,  or a fan of adding orange juice to green smoothies for that matter, but I tried this recipe today (omitting the passionfruit)...  and it is fantastic!

So yummy and refreshing!  Even gave my mum a glass and she loved it. 

Thanks for the recipe MissGiggles   x