Thank you for clarifying. Am not sure where I got these berries/fruit from..likely the bills of Sancole.
>>> There used to be several types of berries and as wilderness withered, many > spices may have become extinct or rare. So what are the berries aside from the chunna, kandem, charrem? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, MD <[email protected]> wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:54:29 +0530 > From: Edgar Silveira <[email protected]> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] Is this the summer berry called bendsem? Take a > look. > Message-ID: > <calhmluk-gs39v9dvbttzdfm4pr3hker4_8egru0udbclffs...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectedgar/6961010854/in/photostream > > Apologies if I posted this earlier. > Am trying to hunt down this rarely seen summer berry.......called > bend-shem. This picture was taken last year and I cannot remember > where I found these berries. > > Thank you. > > The picture is of a wild fruit, what we may call 'vovLam'. These are not > shrub berries; rather the vovlam tree grows to a height. > > > BeNsam are of two varieties, purple and white when ripe, these beNsam are > juicy berries. (Like smaller varieties of Zamblam). Bensam shrubs, if > allowed, grow into midsized trees. Varieties of cute little birds flock on > these to devourer these Bensams during rainy season and children also > relish them. White varietiy are generally not consumed by humans. > > > There used to be several types of berries and as wilderness withered, many > spices may have become extinct or rare. > > > MD
