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Fruit & berries

16 discoveries with Puschel and Flauschi.

16 fruit topics from gardens and orchards, including closer looks at prune plums and mirabelles, with their fruit, leaves and growth habits. This section also explores plants beyond the forest. Pictures help us learn, but cannot safely identify an unknown berry.

Puschel and Flauschi observe apple growing in a garden or orchard.

Apple

Discovering apple

The round fruit may be red, yellow or green. Brown seeds sit inside a central core.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe pear growing in a garden or orchard.

Pear

Discovering pear

Many pears are narrow near the stalk and wider below. Some varieties are rounder.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe plum growing in a garden or orchard.

Plum

Discovering plum

European plums may be round or oval and purple, red or yellow. Zwetschgen, often called prune plums in English, are a usually elongated form of European plum.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe cherry growing in a garden or orchard.

Cherry

Discovering cherry

Sweet cherries are rounded fruits on slender stalks. Depending on the variety, colours range from yellowish to dark red.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe peach growing in a garden or orchard.

Peach

Discovering peach

A peach usually has fuzzy skin and a visible seam. Smooth-skinned nectarines belong to the same species.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe apricot growing in a garden or orchard.

Apricot

Discovering apricot

Apricots are usually small yellow-orange stone fruits with a seam and finely hairy skin. The leaves are broad, oval to rounded and pointed at the tip.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe strawberry growing in a garden or orchard.

Strawberry

Discovering strawberry

A strawberry carries many tiny fruits on the outside of its soft red part. The visible dots are more than bare seeds.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe raspberry growing in a garden or orchard.

Raspberry

Discovering raspberry

A raspberry consists of many tiny fruit units. When ripe fruit is picked, its central core usually stays on the plant, leaving a hollow centre.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe blackberry growing in a garden or orchard.

Blackberry

Discovering blackberry

Blackberries contain many small fruit units. Unlike ripe raspberries, they keep their central core when picked.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe blueberry growing in a garden or orchard.

Blueberry

Discovering blueberry

Cultivated blueberries are blue, often with a pale waxy coating. A small crown is visible at the end of the fruit.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe redcurrant growing in a garden or orchard.

Redcurrant

Discovering redcurrant

Redcurrants hang in elongated strings of many small rounded berries. The shrub has lobed leaves.

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Puschel and Flauschi observe gooseberry growing in a garden or orchard.

Gooseberry

Discovering gooseberry

Gooseberries are rounded to oval. Many show pale veins and may be green, yellow or reddish.

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The two equally sized adult Wusels stand beside a grape trellis; Flauschi holds an open paw below a curled tendril.

Grape

Grapes and their climbing helpers

A grapevine is a climbing plant. Its thin tendrils curl around suitable supports and hold on.

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The two equally sized adult Wusels sit side by side on a garden bench; Flauschi holds a yellow quince beside a quince tree.

Quince

Quinces: golden fruit often enjoyed cooked

Quinces turn yellow when ripe and contain several seeds in a core, like apples. Many varieties are very hard and astringent raw and are used cooked.

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The two equally sized adult Wusels stand beside a branch with elongated blue-purple prune plums; Flauschi holds a shallow bowl.

European prune plum

European prune plums: the longer plums

Prune plums (Zwetschgen) are a form of European plum. They are usually elongated and blue-purple, with one large stone inside.

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The two equally sized adult Wusels kneel side by side beside a low mirabelle branch with small round yellow fruit.

Mirabelle plum

Mirabelles: little yellow plums

Mirabelles are small round plums with yellow-to-golden skin and one stone inside. Some varieties develop red spots.

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