National Geographic - Best of July, 2008
August 13th 2008 01:56
A wild durian fruit from the rain forests of Borneo is cut open, its vivid red flesh exposed. Wild durian has a spiny green exterior, emits an infamous rotting stench, and is mainly eaten by birds.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Borneo’s Strangler Fig Trees," April 1997, National Geographic magazine)
Have you ever tasted this fruit? I have, in a cake, given to me by my Asian friends, before this I had never heard of it.
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