Posting a different fruit every day until we obtain a Crypt head

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October 1st, Day 1423: Prunus virginiana

Fruit Info: For today’s fruit of the day we have a fruit commonly known as the bitterberry. It is also known as the chokecherry, black chokecherry, and perhaps the most unpleasant sounding of all the Virginia bird cherry.

Fruit Tier: B

 

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October 2nd, Day 1424: Prunus ilicifolia

Fruit Info: Today for our fruit of the day we have the evergreen cherry, the hollyleaf cherry. This fruit is a purple to black color with a sweet tasting but thin pulp that wraps around a large stone. Despite its name it is not a true cherry species.

Fruit Tier: C

 

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October 3rd, Day 1425: Prunus laurocerasus

Fruit Info: For our fruit of the day for today we have yet another species of cherry that isn’t that closely related to most cherries. This particular fruit is known as the cherry laurel, or the common laurel. The leaves and seeds of the plant that grows this fruit are deadly to humans, and have been used as a tool for assassination in ancient times.

Fruit Tier: D

 

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October 4th, Day 1426: Prunus lusitanica

Fruit Info: Today for our fruit of the day we have the Portuguese laurel cherry. This fruit is a native to the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, and a few other places. It is thought to spread from cultivated areas to wild areas via birds defecating out the seeds that grow in the fruit.

Fruit Tier: E

 

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October 5th, Day 1427: Prunus myrtifolia

Fruit Info: Today on the next installment of the fruit of the day thread, we have yet another relative of the cherry. This fruit is called the West Indies cherry and the Myrtle laurel cherry. It is a native of the southeast USA through to Central America and the West Indies.

Fruit Tier: E

 

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October 6th, Day 1428: Prunus ceylanica

Fruit Info: Today for our fruit of the day we have yet another relative of the cherry. This one is a resident of India and of Sri Lanka. That’s about all there is to say about this fruit though.

Fruit Tier: A

 

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October 7th, Day 1429: Prunus avium

Fruit Info: For our fruit of the day today we have the Gean, sometimes referred to as the sweet cherry. It is a native of Europe and Western Asia. It is widely cultivated in other areas and it has become naturalized to many of them. This fruit is a species of drupe and its taste can be astringent or sweet depending on when it was picked and how it grew.

Fruit Tier: A

 

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October 8th, Day 1430: Prunus campanulata

Fruit Info: Today’s fruit of the day is a native of Japan, Taiwan, eastern and southern China, and Vietnam. It is known in English as the Taiwan cherry, the Formosan cherry, and the bellflower cherry. The plant that grows it is considered an invasive species in New Zealand and is illegal to grow there.

Fruit Tier: A

 

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October 9th, Day 1431: Prunus cerasus

Fruit Info: This next fruit in our fruit of the day series is known colloquially as the tart cherry. It’s also sometimes called the dwarf cherry. It is native to much of Europe, North America and West Asia and is a close relative of the sweet cherry. Given its close relationship to the sweet cherry, it is easy to surmise that this fruit gets its name from tasting like dwarf.

Fruit Tier: A

 

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October 10th, Day 1432: Prunus pensylvanica

Fruit Info: Here we have our next daily fruit, and once again it is a species of cherry. This particular fruit is known as the pin cherry, the fire cherry, the bird cherry, and quite simply as the red cherry. These fruits are fairly small, and they are also a type of drupe. It is edible and can be used in jellies and preserves.

Fruit Tier: B

 

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October 11th, Day 1433: Prunus pumila

Fruit Info: Today as our fruit of the day we have a species of cherry known as the sand cherry. It is a native of North America, where it grows in sandy locations such as shorelines and dunes.

Fruit Tier: B

 

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October 12th, Day 1434: Prunus tomentosa

Fruit Info: The Nanjing cherry, the Korean cherry, the Manchu cherry, downy cherry, Shanghai cherry, Ando cherry, mountain cherry. Chinese bush cherry, and Chinese dwarf cherry are all name you may hear to refer to our newest fruit of the day. If you couldn’t tell it is a native of China, and Korea, along with Mongolia and possibly northern India. It is edible and is used in juice, jam, wine and even sometimes pickled.

Fruit Tier: B

 

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October 13th, Day 1435: Prunus maritima

Fruit Info: Today for our fruit of the day we have the beach plum. It is a native of the east coast of the United States. This fruit has quite a few cultivars that are basically just selecting for characteristics like better taste.

Fruit Tier: E

 

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October 14th, Day 1436: Prunus mume

Fruit Info: It’s another cherry.

Fruit Tier: F

 

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October 15th, Day 1437: Prunus padus

Fruit Info: it’s another cherry.

Fruit Tier: S

 

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October 16th, Day 1438: Prunus salicina

Fruit Info: Today’s fruit is a species of plum known as either the Chinese plum or the Japanese plum depending on who you talk to. It is a native of China, Japan and Taiwan along with other areas of west Asia.

Fruit Tier: S

 

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October 17th, Day 1439: Prunus sibirica

Fruit Info: For today’s fruit of the day we have the Siberian apricot. This fruit is a native of northern China, Korea, Mongolia, and eastern Siberia. The oil content of the seed that grows in this fruit is unusually high so it has been studied as a bio diesel.

Fruit Tier: S

 

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October 18th, Day 1440: Prunus davidiana

Fruit Info: For today’s fruit of the day we have David’s peach, also known as the Chinese wild peach. It is resistant to frost, a number of pests and many diseases that cultivated peaches suffer from. This makes it a point of study for the genetic improvement of cultivated peaches.

Fruit Tier: C

 

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October 19th, Day 1441: Prunus laurocerasus

Fruit Info: Today’s fruit of the day is another species in the genus Prunus. It is known as the cherry laurel, the common laurel and occasionally as the English laurel. It is found in southeast areas of Europe and southwest regions of Asia. This fruit is a small cherry and it turns black when it ripens in autumn.

Fruit Tier: B

 

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October 20th, Day 1442: Prunus ursina

Fruit Info: This next fruit of the day is a native of the woods of Western Asia from Turkey to Syria and Israel to Lebanon. This fruit can be used to produce a dark grey or green dye. The common name of this fruit is the bear’s plum.

Fruit Tier: C