Carpobrotus edulis

Indigenous, My Garden, photography, Plants

suurvygie

  
  
   These are all images of the same yellow variety of this sour fig. It usually grows on coastal dunes. I planted them in my garden because they remind me of the little village where I used to spend holidays with my family as a child. My grandmother used to make jam from the dried fruit; the petals wither and eventually the fruit becomes dry and brown. We used to pick them, bite the top off and suck out the sticky, sour syrup. I have made sour fig jam a couple of times, but my family aren’t that fond of it, so it ends up as an experiment in the fridge.