Can you Guess What This Picture Is?

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #740 on:** 05/01/2009 11:11:21 »

Well, I'm stumped, but I'll be back (unless someone else gets it [

], which they probably will [:I]...) after a good sleep... [|)] [|)]

dentstudent · « **Reply #741 on:** 07/01/2009 08:46:30 »

OK - there were no guesses over the last 48 hrs, so here is a clue. This edible thing is in its natural state, prior to any cooking or cleaning process.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #742 on:** 07/01/2009 08:47:08 »

Is it a fruit?

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #743 on:** 07/01/2009 08:48:16 »

Is it skin on a chicken/duck, or some sort of animal?

dentstudent · « **Reply #744 on:** 07/01/2009 08:52:17 »

It is technically a sort of fruit, I suppose - it's the fruiting body of something. You should be just about there!

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #745 on:** 07/01/2009 08:59:16 »

Pheww... at least I've finally gotten somewhere [

]
But I must say that it looks nothing like any fruit (or technically fruit) body I have ever seen! [

] [

] I'm still stuck [

] [

] [:I]

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #746 on:** 07/01/2009 09:01:45 »

Can you tell me what those flaky things are?

dentstudent · « **Reply #747 on:** 07/01/2009 09:47:11 »

Not without seriously giving the game away! How about: They are organic matter.

dentstudent · « **Reply #748 on:** 07/01/2009 09:49:52 »

I've also just seen that these are also in NZ, around Christchurch.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #749 on:** 07/01/2009 09:57:07 »

What do you mean by technically fruit?

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #750 on:** 07/01/2009 09:58:19 »

I am miles away from Christchurch...........

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #751 on:** 07/01/2009 10:10:29 »

Is it realated to an orange or mandarin?

dentstudent · « **Reply #752 on:** 07/01/2009 10:20:15 »

Quote from: Chemistry4me on 07/01/2009 09:58:19

I am miles away from Christchurch...........

Not as many as I am!

dentstudent · « **Reply #753 on:** 07/01/2009 10:21:05 »

Quote from: Chemistry4me on 07/01/2009 10:10:29

Is it realated to an orange or mandarin?

Nope. This fruit is not picked from a tree.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #754 on:** 07/01/2009 10:39:08 »

So it's grown in the ground? And it is technically a fruit? Is it related to a melon?

dentstudent · « **Reply #755 on:** 07/01/2009 10:49:53 »

The roots grow in the ground [

] and the fruit rises directly from it. There is no stem.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #756 on:** 07/01/2009 10:53:07 »

What the heck? Man! [

] You've given me all these clues and I still can bloody figure it out [

!] [

!] Does it reproduce sexually or asexually? Or both?

dentstudent · « **Reply #757 on:** 07/01/2009 11:04:47 »

Asexually.

dentstudent · « **Reply #758 on:** 07/01/2009 11:09:15 »

Perhaps I should clarify what I mean by "no stem". There is no woody structure such as you would get for tomatoes or melons for example, from which you would pick the "fuit". It would be collected as a whole, and the whole thing (less roots) can be eaten after cooking.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #759 on:** 07/01/2009 11:10:55 »

A ginger or something like that?