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Soon * after settling at Jamestown, he wrote,"...the fruit is like a medlar; it is first green, then yellow and red when it is ripe: if it is not ripe it will drive a man’s mouth awire with much torment; but when it is ripe it is as delicious as an apricot.”
Perhaps it is the experience of having bitten into a green persimmon that has turned some folks against it; the unripe fruit is full of tannic acid, and as Captain Smith found out, it will make one’s mouth feel as if it’s trying to turn itself inside out — the green fruit is that puckery.
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