The Spanish Lime

It doesn't look like much--actually, it looks kind of like snot. And the first time I tried one in Jamaica, that was kind of the texture impression I got. Think giant lugey.

But they were one of our few options for fruit while we were there, and they grew on me, fast. By the end of the week we were sharing them by the branchful.

In Jamaica we called them guinep, but they're also called Spanish lime, genip, guinep, genipe, ginepa, quenepa, canepa, mamon, limoncillo or mamoncillo (thank you, Wikipedia).

They're kind of lemon-limey. I crave them pretty frequently, but as far as I can tell, you can't get them up here.