eating summer berries in delhi

nitin k

no.. no .. that's totally different material

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(Thanks Mike; I think you're the only one who noticed! Yes, I'm fine, thanks )

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lastoneout

re La Stone...er...why do I not get that?

re gooseberries...no no..different thing altogether...from the wiki...

Grewia asiatica (Phalsa) is a species of Grewia native to southern Asia from India east to Cambodia, and widely cultivated in other tropical countries.[1][2]

It is a shrub or small tree growing to 8 m tall. The leaves are broadly rounded, 5-18 cm long and broad, with a petiole 1-1.5 cm long. The flowers are produced in cymes of several together, the individual flowers about 2 cm diameter, yellow, with five large (12 mm) sepals and five smaller (4-5 mm) petals. The fruit is an edible drupe 5-12 mm diameter, purple to black when ripe.[1][3]

[edit] Cultivation and uses

It is extensively cultivated for its sweet and sour acidic fruits, which are sold in the market during summer months under the name Falsa. The pleasant sherbet or squash is prepared from the fruit pulp by mixing it with sugar and used as an astringent, stomachic and cooling agent.

AvidTrekker

Google on "arbi in Hindi" with the quotes and see the info you get. Many images too.

Arbi leaves are also eaten. In a special vegetable preparation called Aluwadi in Marathii and Paatraa in Gujaraatii
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AvidTrekker

Here is a link with nice pictures and proper description of the Phalsa plant fruit seed etc...

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/p...99/v4-348.html

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KateW

Thanks Avidtrekker I googled arbi on it's own and got nowhere. so your advice was helpful.