Let me confess I did not know what this was until I saw this picture. Do you know what it is? What is it used for? Where it comes from? Do tell us more about this is you do know? Or, make a guess?
Answer on next page below
Most of our readers had guessed the answer right. Infact I got to learn much more about this fruit from the comments than my own source of information. Here is the answer that I researched. This fruit is called ‘Dodi’ in Sindhi. It is a seasonal fruit grown in shallow waters. I don’t know the Urdu name. But through your informative comments we all did get to learn many other names of this fruit.
The photo above shows a person selling ‘Dodi’ in Larkana on June 20, 2009.
This is definitely lotus fruit which develops as the Lotus flower wilts. The seeds studded in this peculiar bulb have to be peeled individually before they are eaten. It was sold in the older parts of Karachi in the fifties and sixties. It has a mildly nutty taste.
I’m pretty sure Siddarth is right. My dad tried to get me to eat it ~5 years ago while we were travelling a little north of Hyderabad; I never tried it. :-).
This would be a very rude bouqet.
A bunch of shower head looking bulbs. A message to clean up. I wonder who would I send it to, politically speaking hmmmm..
This is lotus bulb as said earlier is eaten as fruit/vegetable in sindh and southern punjab. It is sometimes available in the market too. In seraikee it is called ‘puban (kunwal) de tikee’ . The kernel in the pods is really tasty.
Exactly Sidharth, It is Lotus plant and its seeds are eaten commonly near Thatta and Kalri Lake.
This is a part of Lotus plant - grows in ponds and lakes. This bulb actually is eaten as a fruit - the seeds inside these bulbs needs to be peeled off and eaten. Commonly eaten by Kashmiri’s (and I guess Sindhi’s)… BTW, the lotus stem is also a delicacy vegetable - popular in Kashmir (and amongst Sindhi’s too)
On first glance it looks like they’re selling a bundle of biodegradable shower heads.
It grows in ponds and I think it is eaten in parts of South Pakistan (South Punjab and Sindh). Don’t remember the name.