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Week eighty: SEBESTEN (probability 25390), by David Sutton
SEBESTEN is the edible plumlike fruit of an oriental tree, or the tree itself, from the Arabic sabastan. It is one of the many exotic fruits that I have sadly never sampled, being able to afford neither to travel to foreign parts nor to shop at the more upmarket supermarkets. Here are a few more of the mouthwatering exotica I have wondered about:
| AGUACATE | a kind of avocado pear |
| ATEMOYA | a hybrid of the SWEETSOP and CHERIMOYA |
| CANISTEL | a Caribbean fruit |
| JARGONEL | an early pear |
| MONSTERA | a fruit grown in Queensland |
| PLUMCOT | a hybrid of a plum and an apricot |
| RAMBUTAN | a Malayan fruit akin to the LYCHEE |
| SPANSPEK | a sweet tough-skinned melon from South Africa |
| WAMPEE | a Chinese fruit about the size of a large grape, with a hard yellow rind |