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Yamamomo of the Kochi specialty is specified as the flower of the prefecture in Kochi, and the tree of the prefecture in Tokushima. It grows wild south from Kanto. There is no familiarity in a northeast or Hokkaido. They are familiar fruits in the south from Kanto. However, they are also fruits which seldom appear on the market in a shop front from the ease of hurting.

Although a name is Yamamomo(:mountain's peach), a common peach is a plant which is completely different. It is glad to delight people at the rainy season.



It is a fresh scent when a smell is smelled. Appearance is covered with the dark-red grain. A size is only 2cm to 3cm. It is sour when it eats. I frowned automatically.

But if the 2nd is thrown in, it is eating by the face which was not. Man is a brawny animal. When it eats calmly, it is sour and sweet. It also seems to be an oleaster also so that it may be a grape. There is also astringency faintly.

The seed of the size like a soybean is in the central part, a long and slender fruit is radiately extended from there, and the surface of a sphere is constituted.


  Japanese : Yama-momo
A kind : It is blended by Zuiko, Moriguchi, Nishimura

Harvesttime : The season of the rainy season of June
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