Colourful Fruit

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Colourful Fruit
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Copyright: Monica Wiegert (magiqa) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 125 W: 0 N: 65] (655)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-02-22
Categories: Trees
Exposure: f/4.7, 1/160 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-03-18 7:53
Viewed: 649
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This fruit with very red seeds is used for colouring lipstick and such. Unfortunately I have forgotten the name of the fruit. I saw it in a spice plantation in Zanzibar.
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nice and interesting photo

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  • Silke Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 745 W: 107 N: 1694] (5302)
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Very interesting!
What you are looking at is the seed of the achiote (Bixa orellana L.). It is used as the red food colouring in many cheeses, such as Cheddar, Red Leicester, and Brie, as well as margarine and custard powder among other things including lipstick. The natives refer to the tree as the lipstick tree and use the pulp as body paint as well as lipstick.
Good PoV on the fruit
TFS
silke

Hi Monica,
In my stay in Zanzibar they taught this peculiar fruit to me, very interesting
Salutacions cordials

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