Nutmeg : Photos tagged as fruit

Nutmeg

Showing the fruit, mace and nut itself. The fruit is delicious and sold dried or made into jam. Mace is bright red when it emerges from the fruit and dries to its distinctive pale brown when left in the sun. The nutmeg that we use is encased in a shell beneath the mace.

• Date: 4 June 2009
• Photographer: baluba: gallery
• Uploaded: 14th Jul 2009
• Location: Indonesia: gallery
• Tags: trees fruit spices
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