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Title: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 12:39:10 pm
**A game where we post photos of food (in crop form )that we all consume, but have no fucking clue where it comes from**

I'll start..

WTF is this:

(https://i.ibb.co/DW8svsn/Screenshot-20200522-123620-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/3dMGjGH)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 May, 2020, 12:42:07 pm
Sesame ?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 12:45:26 pm
Yes  :thumbsup:

How did you know?  I was just eating a packet of sesame snaps (well 3 packets, actually) and it occured to me that I had no idea where they come from.

Your go
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 May, 2020, 02:11:07 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 12:45:26 pm
How did you know?

No idea. I just looked at it and thought sesame. Must have seen a picture of a sesame plant before somewhere. It's not something grown as a crop in the UK so far as I know, I think it needs a lot of sun.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 May, 2020, 02:16:50 pm
It bears some resemblance to a foxglove in flower shape, and overall plant physiology.

<googles>

Lo and behold! The South African and Limpopo foxgloves are related! (all set about with fever trees).
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Ham on 22 May, 2020, 02:49:34 pm
Someone should be able to identify this crop
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Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: hatler on 22 May, 2020, 03:00:08 pm
What's this ?  (No peeking at the URL.)

(https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/images/item_images/000/005/299/large_square/PIPERNIGRUM.JPG?1495392984)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 03:10:48 pm
Looks like coffee, but the cherries are too round. Peppercorn?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: hatler on 22 May, 2020, 03:19:34 pm
Yup. Well done. Peppercorns.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 03:24:01 pm
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/MB42BH/cashew-nut-tree-branches-full-of-fruits-MB42BH.jpg)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: ian on 22 May, 2020, 03:29:10 pm
I'm recusing myself, but that fruit in that picture is quite tasty.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: L CC on 22 May, 2020, 03:40:10 pm
When I bought oils I saw all these pictures, or some like them, in marketing blurb.

I've seen flatus's latest in the flesh, in Tobago. I didn't think you could eat the fruit?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: SteveC on 22 May, 2020, 04:10:52 pm
Cashews?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 May, 2020, 04:17:36 pm
Sesame snaps are (frequently, I'm sure not always) made in Poland, but I've never seen sesame growing there. Probably doesn't have the right climate. Which is odd. But then, cocoa doesn't grow in Bourneville.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 04:18:46 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 22 May, 2020, 04:10:52 pm
Cashews?

Yarp

Emits a caustic substance I'm told.

This should fox you. I reckon Ian will get it though  ;)

(https://i.ibb.co/pnXrqVX/20200522-161546.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hC810Q8)

Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: canny colin on 22 May, 2020, 05:19:51 pm
Juvenile Delinquent Triffids    Howard Keel & The Ice Cream van are just out of picture
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 05:32:53 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 22 May, 2020, 04:10:52 pm
Cashews?

Gesundheit
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Jaded on 22 May, 2020, 06:42:34 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 22 May, 2020, 04:10:52 pm
Cashews?

No, contactless.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 May, 2020, 06:43:59 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 22 May, 2020, 06:42:34 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 22 May, 2020, 04:10:52 pm
Cashews?

No, contactless.
Short sighted or long sighted?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 May, 2020, 07:10:31 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 04:18:46 pm
Quote from: SteveC on 22 May, 2020, 04:10:52 pm
Cashews?

Yarp

Emits a caustic substance I'm told.

This should fox you. I reckon Ian will get it though  ;)

(https://i.ibb.co/pnXrqVX/20200522-161546.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hC810Q8)

Is that tobacco?

I have to say that's reasonably wild guess on the basis that you said Ian would get it and I remember reading that he spent some time in Virginia in his youth. ;) Furthermore, I recall my dad growing some tobacco in the 1960s and I don't remember it looking like that.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 07:16:21 pm
Not baccy, no.

I once galloped through some baccy fields on a horse on my way to gallop through a coffee plantation.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 May, 2020, 08:33:51 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 07:16:21 pm
I once galloped through some baccy fields on a horse on my way to gallop through a coffee plantation.
Swoon! I bet you made even Putin jealous.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 May, 2020, 08:36:07 pm
Tobacco (which, unlike sesame or that crop, does grow in Poland) has huge leaves. Which might be how people came to smoke it; use the huge tough leaves for wrapping bundles of whatever, at the end of the day, sitting round the campfire, throw dried out leaves on fire and inhale.

That crop there is, as the mention of ian hinted at, keenwah or Queen Noah.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 08:46:00 pm
 :thumbsup:

Was it the clue that gave it away?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: ian on 22 May, 2020, 10:03:06 pm
Quote from: fboab on 22 May, 2020, 03:40:10 pm
When I bought oils I saw all these pictures, or some like them, in marketing blurb.

I've seen flatus's latest in the flesh, in Tobago. I didn't think you could eat the fruit?

Yes, cashew 'apples' can be eaten, they're quite tasty. They're ripe for about an afternoon though, so you have to buy them just-so and scoff them. They're often made into liquor (I've had cashew fruit beer) to use them up. You can get them at the market in Brazil, along with fresh cashew nuts. They don't transport, so you have to get them fresh in the tropics. You also get them in Vietnam and thereabouts.

Mature cashews are huge, sprawling trees.

Quinoa is actually related to spinach and not grains. Cheeky. See also buckwheat. Not wheat at all.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 May, 2020, 10:28:19 pm
Gwan nen!!

(https://i.ibb.co/sPV57XR/images-jpeg.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 11:53:18 pm
A bit of research on a FISE suggests thats caper.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 11:54:22 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49206046802_4cbbf5c6a6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hYaRph)
IMG_4926_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hYaRph) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Pingu on 23 May, 2020, 12:26:01 am
Also, why does this topic need so many *s?*







*Just askin'
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2020, 07:43:50 am
Quote from: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 11:54:22 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49206046802_4cbbf5c6a6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hYaRph)
IMG_4926_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hYaRph) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Picture me, on horseback, galloping through this  ;)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2020, 07:45:24 am
Quote from: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 11:53:18 pm
A bit of research on a FISE suggests thats caper.

Yes, it is. They are flower buds.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Jaded on 23 May, 2020, 10:19:34 am
Cassava
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2020, 10:27:45 am
Nein. See my earlier posts. Its baccy, and that pic looks almost identical to a place in Cuba where said Flatal cavallier activity took place.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Pingu on 23 May, 2020, 10:36:39 am
Viñales
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2020, 10:46:46 am
Yes...the very place. I rode up into those hills with a farmer who spoke no English, and my Spanish is non-existent.

I'd managed to get him to take me out on horses for an agreed sum of $20. At the top he stopped and wanted a chat. It was awkward. He was winking at me and saying something like "los chicos cubanos son muy bellos". I looked blankly at him. He continued, more emphatically. More blank expressions and palm up gestures from me. This went on for about a minute until he finally said, with a look of disappointment, "sexo". I realised he was expressing his admiration for the beauty of Cuban women. Belatedly, I nodded my wholehearted agreement, but he looked crestfallen.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2020, 10:50:09 am
(https://i.ibb.co/B44C0T5/L7-VRHECGNDHLEAVCXR6-AGZDHEU.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4ssVh4n)

This might be challenging
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: T42 on 23 May, 2020, 02:03:35 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 11:54:22 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49206046802_4cbbf5c6a6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hYaRph)
IMG_4926_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hYaRph) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

It's grown here, too, probably for the same reason that the UK developed a taste for port.  There are drying sheds within 50k of our place.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 May, 2020, 10:44:41 am
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 23 May, 2020, 10:50:09 am
(https://i.ibb.co/B44C0T5/L7-VRHECGNDHLEAVCXR6-AGZDHEU.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4ssVh4n)

This might be challenging
Obviously too challenging. I was puzzling over what sort of nut it could be. I've now come to the conclusion that it's not a nut. But I don't know what it is.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: hatler on 28 May, 2020, 11:22:07 am
Walnut ?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 May, 2020, 11:27:10 am
Nein. Not a nut.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: SteveC on 28 May, 2020, 11:45:45 am
Caper?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: JonBuoy on 28 May, 2020, 11:49:47 am
Nutmeg?  Which I believe isn't really a nut.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 May, 2020, 12:22:21 pm
We've done capers, and it isnt nutmeg.

I'd suggest looking at the leaves as a clue as to the type of plant, then taking it from there....
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: L CC on 28 May, 2020, 01:04:01 pm
Dr Google claims it is a fig. Dr Google (on this occasion) is wrong.

Looks like rose leaves but they're too glaucous.

I'm reckoning it doesn't make an oil and that's why I don't recognise it.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: andrewc on 28 May, 2020, 01:12:42 pm
I opened this thread expecting to see a copy of the Bristol Stool Chart .....
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: nicknack on 28 May, 2020, 01:27:11 pm
Leaves look like some sort of bean. Field?

<edit> Ah! It's a chickpea.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: hellymedic on 28 May, 2020, 02:22:29 pm
Quote from: fboab on 28 May, 2020, 01:04:01 pm
Dr Google claims it is a fig. Dr Google (on this occasion) is wrong.

Looks like rose leaves but they're too glaucous.

I'm reckoning it doesn't make an oil and that's why I don't recognise it.

Figs have leaves large enough and appropriately shaped to shield a grown man's modesty...
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 May, 2020, 02:32:21 pm
Quote from: nicknack on 28 May, 2020, 01:27:11 pm
Leaves look like some sort of bean. Field?

<edit> Ah! It's a chickpea.

Hooray  :thumbsup:

Somebody else's turn to post a pic...
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 May, 2020, 03:37:44 pm
Chickpea! At last, a really useful crop.  :thumbsup: In fact a truly pro-flatulative crop!
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2020, 04:23:44 pm
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nuo5MUEPG9qSm9DKGq0Av0Yw7WNCZBOsIfRhdo35ArKcuFoSXoiEYVXaP7iHa_xypL53_KgVSsNts1rd3wgnSUoeEVVGNMnCxDtoMAwP3mT2vuDzkbYc_sjgrP-M5zvCF4awwNHueCCn6zX6xrAi203WWfpK7sYITEzQLz74KJ0JRzeeiQbTOionuvJA0UP6Y0dhMCGPxtHSBaFLUTz4cPqsuJRcXeFqi0QekFz6JbT96oKY7iEKur90-UJvMIiAEP-fvkRgnBu1UjdsBp84udqjQB1GjRBaDnPAmHsNSQKeA4wFVGKbVnAdTbd2PDfkJ9Xl7vwdJQEgS_dpK01D-b8-odVQKpsqT3BCZVCadTB5ghG94HWas6vCWz3ZJre6CWpzFy85ewnlqAnJqdlrIJH85TC5SVPaT6H6sVHiIyl-OZyAWbPwqWRrmnMoWTWHQqstSeb6ehaFdeGof6qu6L15ME-IbYnl6tDffkYMaFM7VJoC1K2KWevUcdw1JngVWsKK7KZFP_dzxDv1Bh9W4_x2fjEBAeR7r-eVhx-zkT2hyleqL4G5z4z_qLufwKl0Jb12QrIXqd9NAN9mszOA83YWCaeLUiIxf29fIwtUtmMIXfA8I-W69O2PRmMfitzmw1sTO2cfGgjqWY8dNbpSLtFNW0yLLhvyqAj1Bgah_NgSaNqMsYpGFUJ1vRyTR0E=w503-h479-no?authuser=0)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: hellymedic on 28 May, 2020, 05:09:05 pm
Can't see pic!
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Hot Flatus on 28 May, 2020, 05:13:57 pm
Since nobody has, I will then.


(https://i.ibb.co/fHV1Qff/Screenshot-20200528-171217-Gallery.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x6KC3WW)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2020, 08:04:20 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 28 May, 2020, 05:09:05 pm
Can't see pic!

Soddit. I never know how to link to google photos. I don't understand how to give permissions. Jan could see it from her account so I assumed everyone would be able to.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2020, 08:05:00 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 28 May, 2020, 05:13:57 pm
Since nobody has, I will then.


(https://i.ibb.co/fHV1Qff/Screenshot-20200528-171217-Gallery.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x6KC3WW)

That looks like bay to me.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2020, 08:13:55 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2020, 08:04:20 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 28 May, 2020, 05:09:05 pm
Can't see pic!

Soddit. I never know how to link to google photos. I don't understand how to give permissions. Jan could see it from her account so I assumed everyone would be able to.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ACtC-3c0s_DJU6m52JVYUUByygL4u0O44zyy99nGjnO0wXtBpEO5SuNxdionkFqWTQMMLaVMfvFECY3Yz3ETRlvEL44Htzmr8O45z-6nHelRh56ryCAfZ-58xm57P_P5I_1bKai75RtHWkywV66_2xkGqMtS5Q=w503-h479-no?authuser=0)

Has that worked?
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: hatler on 28 May, 2020, 08:26:30 pm
It has.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: neilrj on 28 May, 2020, 11:45:44 pm
Okra for the yellow flowered one, its been harvested too.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 May, 2020, 02:06:38 pm
Quote from: neilrj on 28 May, 2020, 11:45:44 pm
Okra for the yellow flowered one, its been harvested too.

Yes - it's a lovely flower, and I thought it was striking that the centre of the flower (carpel?) was pentagonal, and the okra pods are pentagonal in cross-section.
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Pingu on 29 May, 2020, 07:59:09 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 28 May, 2020, 05:13:57 pm
Since nobody has, I will then.


(https://i.ibb.co/fHV1Qff/Screenshot-20200528-171217-Gallery.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x6KC3WW)

I'm thinking of a one note guitar solo  :)
Title: Re: **Identify the crop**
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 May, 2020, 12:10:32 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 29 May, 2020, 07:59:09 pm

I'm thinking of a one note guitar solo  :)

That's not very Prog!