Help!  Today (Friday) my synagogue is celebrating Tu B'Shvat -- the annual
birthday of trees.  As part of Tu B'Shvat, we traditionally eat fruit from
each of three categories:  Fruit with hard cores but soft, edible outsides,
such as olives, apricots, dates, and cherries; fruit with hard, inedible
outer shells but soft cores, like pomegranates and walnuts; and fruit that
is fully edible, like figs and berries.  But I'm trying to identify a
wood-working type wood that fits that last category -- does anyone have any
suggestions (even better would be one where I could find the fruit in a
local store, but not necessary).  Thanks!

-Shannon M. Salb
Lippman & Semsker, PLLC
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Is osage orange edible? How 'bout persimmon?

Good luck.

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Persimmon?

Ross A. Nideffer

Osage Orange will make you sick as a dog.
Persimmons is ok to eat after the first frost of the season and may not be
fully edible.

Mulberries would work, since you can eat the whole thing.

John wrote:
>Is osage orange edible? How 'bout persimmon?

How about apple or pear? granted lots of people don't eat the core or seed,
but I have  when you slice them up. you definatly don't wan't to eat any
osage orange...........Todd

Apple.  It may not suit everyone, but the core is certainly edible.

Erik von Sneidern

Don't know about Osage Orange, but persimmon is.  Japanese persimmon is
frequently in the grocery.  I understand that American Persimmon is best
after a frost.  You see it in jams and jellies, too.

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> Is osage orange edible? How 'bout persimmon?
>

Shannon Salb wrote:
>
> ..................................................... and fruit that
> is fully edible, like figs and berries.  But I'm trying to identify a
> wood-working type wood that fits that last category -- does anyone have any
> suggestions (even better would be one where I could find the fruit in a
> local store, but not necessary).

Shannon,

Maybe it's just me but I've always considered pears to be fully edible and I
know some people who think the same of apples.

-Ken

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:07:28 EST "John J. Pesut"
<jpesut@a...> writes:
> Is osage orange edible?
>

Not by humans.  Cockroaches love it.

>How 'bout persimmon?
>

Cooked, yes.  As in persimmon pudding.  I think it can be eathen raw
when fully ripened.  But I think I'll stick to cooked until someone else
tries the raw fruit and reports back to us...

I imagine if you search hard enough you can find some fig wood.  I dunno
what properties it would have but I bet somebody turns it.

>   But I think I'll stick to cooked until someone else
> tries the raw fruit and reports back to us...

  No kidding? Never had one?A good persimmon is a treat indeed! A real
treat.
You want them when they're soft as a half full water baloon. Grocery stores
usually put them in the clearance bin when they're just right. Otherwise
place on a window sill a few days. Good and squishy. The skin is less good,
so I just bite a hole and suck it out. Yum and I mean yum!
  Let's see, my window sill isn't new, but hardly qualifies as a tool. How
about my old teeth? I guess I  -could-  use hand power to operate them?
  yours,  Scott

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Hi, Shannon and others
        Japanese persimmons are fully edible, but I don't know about the
wood of the tree. American persimmons have big, inedible seeds; but the
wood is fine. I have three persimmon trees, but two of them are males and
give no fruit. I'm saving the biggest one for the wood, but it may be
somebody else who gets it.
        Trevor

Shannon,

I wouldn't eat the seeds though.  I seem to remember reading somewhere
that the seeds of apples have a trace amount of cyanide I believe or
some type of poison that occurs naturally in them.  Not enough to kill
ya but I wouldn't make a habit of it.  Not sure about the pears.

Dave Strommen

 Erik von Sneidern wrote:

>Apple.  It may not suit everyone, but the core is certainly edible.

As a child I ate pears and apples whole--in fact I
only stopped because I was told that pesticides
accumulate in the seeds.  That was twenty years ago,
but I still eat the peanut--shell and all.  GAM

--- Erik von Sneidern <enrico@a...> wrote:
> Apple.  It may not suit everyone, but the core is
> certainly edible.
>
> Erik von Sneidern
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Shannon et al,
        Another candidate might be the Pawpaw, _Asimina triloba_.  As a kid
I can remember eating the bananna-like fruits from these from a few scraggly
trees growing in a hollow right next to the Susquehanna River in York Co, Pa.
I think they are more common in the south.  While not a big tree, Hoadley
lists the wood as one that fluoresces with a "faint yellow-green," and so
it is of some interest to wood carvers.

        Sandy
(who once bit into an underripe persimmon plucked from a tree on the
Lancaster Co side of the Susquehanna, and suffered a severely puckered
mouth for nearly 2 hours)