Who, what, or where am I? #15
I am a fruit. But what is my name and where is my natural habitat?
8 Answers
I don't know where it's originally from but we used to have a tree in our backyard. We call it star apple but in other parts of the country, it's commonly called caimito. :D
I am a caimito (Chrysophyllum cainito).
I am known by many different names: estrella, caimo morado, caimito maduraverde, aguay, star-apple, milk fruit, …
My natural habitats are: the Carribean region, Central America, northern South America, and the West Indies.
Caimito trees grow radpidly and reach 20 m in height. They are hermaphroditic. From the age of 7 years, it bears fruit all through the year.
The caimito fruit is round and purple with yelllow around the calyx, whitish or yellow. with a star pattern in the pulp.
The fruit also exist in 3 colors: dark purple, greenish brown and yellow.
Though caimito is a delicious, sweet fruit, it is not grown commercially on a large scale.
The Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott immortalizes the fruit as a symbol of the Caribbean itself in his 1979 collection 'The Star-Apple Kingdom'.
Here you can see some spectacular pictures of me.
Pomegranate ? But I don't know where it could be from ....
Wow, in the first pic they look like apples, but the second picture makes me be curious to know the name of this fruit :O 
My first guess would have been a Passiflora as well, though I wouldn't be so sure if it is a Maracuja (P. edulis).
My guess would be that it is a Mapop (Passiflora incarnata or the so called purple Passionfruit), which is an wildflower of the southern-east US.
Is this a passion fruit? It is native to Paraguay, Brazil and northern Argentina.
Passiflora edulis is the scientific name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_edulis English link
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_edulis Spanish link
I'm going with Pomegranate as well, although the ones grown here in CA are genetically engineered into a slightly different-looking fruit. So, if in fact this is pomegranate, then it originated in a zone running from Iran to the Himalayas and N. India. The fruit does well in dry, arid climates, so.... AZ and CA are the main producers in EEUU. The Spanish introduced the fruit in CA in/around 1769. If Pomegranate is *not the answer... then this was all a waste of time haha.
No, sorry, but I am not a pomegranate. And your story was very interesing micahjones, so: not a waste of your time 
