This is a wonderful time to be lost in the jungles of Southern Thailand. It’s always easy to find edible plants, but during the spring months, it’s easy to find very tasty fruit.
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Ginger bulbs. |
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Lagam (in Thai)… Salacca Palm fruit |
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Wild Rose Apple flower. Once this falls off, the succulent fruit starts to grow. |
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Luk Wai (Vine Fruit). This is extremely tasty! |
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This fruit seldom reaches the ground in tact as monkeys absolutely love it! It tastes like orange sherbert. |
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Ma Fai fruit, a common fruit tree here. The fruit grows off of the trunk, making them easy to collect. |
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Wild Custard Apples… very sweet treats. |
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We have over a hundred fig (ficus) tree species here. This is one of the few that is actually edible for humans. |
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Very tasty vine fruit. |
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Luk Mak, an extremely sweet berry that is easy to gather. |