Dragon fruit

This is a dragon fruit. It looks like part of a Tibetan painting.

A few weeks ago, I started a new hobby of buying a wierd looking fruit or vegetable every Saturday, after I saw a Romanesco.

A Romanesco is the most fractal vegetable you could ever imagine. It is amazingly beautiful. I didn't have a camera handy and it was too big and non-flat to scan.

However, the dragon fruit did fit on the scanner bed. The scan doesn't do it justice because I had to squash it a bit and the colours came out slightly wrong.

I didnt dare eat the Romanesco because I couldn't bring myself to deface it. I did eat the dragon fruit. It was quite nice, it tasted a bit like a lychee.

I was reduced to buying a pomegranete last week, the shops don't have too many stunning-looking rare fruit.