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Ideas for community gardens < fast fruits
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The cape gooseberry fruit is carried
inside a papery husk.
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Removed from their husks, cape gooseberries
are a sweet treat eaten raw or made into jam.
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CAPE GOOSEBERRY
Botanic name
Growth form
- perennial shrub to one metre high and wide
Edible part
- sweet, round, yellow fruit to two centimetres diameter inside papery husk
- eat raw, as a dessert or make into jam
Growing + harvesting
- self-pollinating
- propagated by seed
Centre of diversity
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Friday, 16 December 2005
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