http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/fresh-pili-fruit-and-pili-nuts http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/fresh-pili-fruit-and-pili-nuts#comments Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:52:43 +0000 Marketman /?p=8 The pili tree (Canarium ovatum Engl.) is indigenous to the Philippine archipelago and grows primarily in the bicol region. It is an extremely hardy tree and its fruit is somewhat jurassic in appearance. The fruit (often called a nut but is technically a drupe) is about 5-6 centimeters long and has a think black skin when ripe. Under the skin isa fibrous greenish (and hairy) pulp. The very hard pointed shell houses the oily and yummy nut within. It is the nut within that most Filipinos think of when you say Pili Nut.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/fresh-pili-fruit-and-pili-nuts/feed 90