Yesterday I got this strange fruit in a gift basket. It’s about the size of a plum, but longer. Red skin with orange flesh and dark seeds. Tastes pretty plain – not sweet or tart. 
Any ideas?
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It’s a tamarillo, also known as “Tree Tomato”. I like them raw but best of all as a “sauce”, cooked with a bit of sugar/honey to sweeten if needed, on icecream…
http://www.tamarillos.orcon.net.nz/
Mystery solved. We’ll have to try them sweetened in the ’sauce’, sounds better than they tasted raw. Thanks!
Suspect, looking at the picture, they weren’t quite ripe enough
I was going to say they looked like pomegranates, but I haven’t seen one in 30 years, so I’m not a good judge. So, how was the sauce?
Those fruits look sort of like pamagranites! They look odd, but tasty!
Nicole Hartman
they are pomeagranates, theyre realllllyyy good. the reaosn they look like that is because you are suppose to cut it from the other end and not in half…
Check the first comment: it’s a tamarillo. They never did ripen and we eventually threw them away.
it is Terong Belanda… come from North Sumatra.
look at the pattern in the seeds. it looks like an ancient symbol!
this is a pytaya (pee-tie-yah) well thats what they call it in spanish. it comes from a cactus like tree in mexico.