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As a child, I wondered why my mother appeared to be fascinated by the fruit, serving it often when it was in season. It turns out that avocadoes thrived in the province of Bohol, where she spent her formative years, and the province produces an impressive crop each year. It might surprise a few of you that avocados were only introduced to the country around 1900, and despite just a hundred years of cultivation, it is now one of the top 10 fruits crops in the Philippines. The fruit, a native to Mexico or thereabouts, only really thrives in a dozen or so countries around the world, the Philippines being one of the lucky few.

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Amazing what a catchy name will do for your popularity. Naive that I am sometimes, I thought the name "passion fruit" was coined because the fruit ignited one's libido or acted as some sort of aphrodisiac. Or if I were to make a more graphic definition, that the texture, consistency and look of the pulp and seeds would react with one's gonads in the same manner that raw oysters are supposed to help in that regard.

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As a child, I wondered why my mother appeared to be fascinated by the fruit, serving it often when it was in season. It turns out that avocadoes thrived in the province of Bohol, where she spent her formative years, and the province produces an impressive crop each year. It might surprise a few of you that avocados were only introduced to the country around 1900, and despite just a hundred years of cultivation, it is now one of the top 10 fruits crops in the Philippines. The fruit, a native to Mexico or thereabouts, only really thrives in a dozen or so countries around the world, the Philippines being one of the lucky few.

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Amazing what a catchy name will do for your popularity. Naive that I am sometimes, I thought the name "passion fruit" was coined because the fruit ignited one's libido or acted as some sort of aphrodisiac. Or if I were to make a more graphic definition, that the texture, consistency and look of the pulp and seeds would react with one's gonads in the same manner that raw oysters are supposed to help in that regard.

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