"Indian fig." Prickly pear. The delicious but risky fruit of a cactus. The sweet, juicy flesh ripens from green to a deep apricot-pink colour. It is sensible to use leather gloves when dealing with these fruit as they are covered in fine, penetrating prickles. They are normally eaten raw but can be cooked, with the edible seeds becoming hard with cooking.
An apple with greenish-white flesh tinged with yellow. Firm, crisp and juicy, this apple was raised at Flemlöse on Westfyn Island around 1910. Mr Madsden, a teacher who found the tree, named the apple after his daughter. It has very dark red flush and stripes. This mid-season variety is harvested from late-September in South-East England and is at its best from October to December.
