Wandering into "Spikes" [Morelle de Balbis]

There are so many things around, which we often miss out or tend to ignore. Neither ever care to know about. Are we doing right??. Just to give an example...I have been carrying my phone for 5 years which have certain editing option which I was unaware about. I mostly tried to fix the coloring, but there are more than that.

spiky morelle de balbis

This picture just gives an example of features available on my phone. I never tried this amazing feature, even these were available right three on the editing button. I often saw those [3dots] that but never tried. Now accidently found them and since them, I am non stop trying to give different looks to my photographs.

There is beauty around every bend

Not messing much around this post, let me take you to one such finding in my surrounding. Which remain hiding in bushes. Like, the way I never ever cared or unnoticed my editing option on the phone, likewise I use to ignore the little pulpy fruit (moralle de balbis) on my way. I used to pass through it, see them everyday but never cared to know. I assume it to be wild plant with lot of spiky thorns all over it. Untill, I took a closer look yesterdays.

Take my words these are not as wild as it seems to be. The little bushes beside the road houses many of these prickly things. Some of them were wide open to give you a pulpy red fruit, with lot of seeds inside. It is actually like a tomatoes 🍅 containing too many seeds inside

ohhhh I am goofing again with my editing images.

Solanum sisymbriifolium is commonly known as vila-vila, sticky nightshade, red buffalo-bur, the fire-and-ice plant, litchi tomato, or Morelle de Balbis. The small edible fruits are red on the outside and yellow inside. It grows inside a spiny, green husk. The fruit is ripe when it is easily removed from the stem - Wikipedia

The thorny plants into the wild looks very lovely, but we needed to be careful with the thorns. It has too many of prickly spikes all over the places. Infact the entire plant was very risky to touch. The thorns on the plants are as dangerous as rose or cacti thorns, so a lot of care has to be taken when dealing with the plants. When I tried to pluck the fruit, I already felt the pricks. It was not easy. It has so many of them, on the fruits, on the flower, on the stems , on the fruit shells everywhere.

The bushes was too sidelined to even notice by anyone. In many village there were so many of them, but everyone ignores them.
It produces lovely white flowers followed by 4-5cm red fruits enclosed in a prickly husk. I was not aware of its usage and considering it a wild bushes just like many grown around it. But this litchi tomstoes is used as a fruits, in tarts, in desserts, with breakfast and in an exotically fruit salad.

Some of the green spiky sheels started to ripe, and the mouth open from the bottom and the red fruits peeps through it. Here are more of the spiky pictures I took while observing the little bushes on the roads.

If you started to wondering how the bushes would looks like. Here is the one, that houses these mini litchi tomatoes.

These Morelle de Balbis has many usage, and sour in taste. It is used as a preservative items too. Not sure, having so much quality, why these plants are remain unnoticed so far. Just like to miss out to explore many things, these wild weeds / bushes remain un explored from our people. Many used to farm this and here, these are just wild.

Peace!!

Namaste @steemflow

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