This poster presents exotic fruits.
It is an adornment for any kitchen wall.

The brilliant images are complemented by substantiated information about, among other things, the following exotic fruits:
Acerola- Ambarella- Pineapple- Cherimoya- Date- Fig- Guava- Persimmon-Carambola- Kiwi- Lychee- Lucuma- Naranjilla- Mango- Passion Fruit- Banana- Tamarillo- Papaya- Physalis(Cape Gooseberry)- Sapote- Starfruit

Here are some tips and interesting facts about:

The KIWI
The fruits originally came from Southern China.
Mary Isabel Fraser, Principal of Wanganui Girl’s School, brought the seeds to New Zealand in 1904, from a visit she made to mission schools in China.
The seeds were planted in 1906 by a Wanganui nurseryman, Alexander Allison. The vines first fruited in 1910.
The flavour was similar to a gooseberry, so it got the name Chinese Gooseberry. Around 1950 export to Europe and North America began. In 1959, it was named Kiwi (fruit) after New Zealand’s national bird the Kiwi which is brown and furry.
As the name was not protected, it was soon used for fruits which were produced outside of New Zealand.
Today, Kiwis which are grown in New Zealand are marketed under the name Zespri.
Italy is the leading producer of Kiwi fruits worldwide, followed by New Zealand, Chile, France, Greece, and Japan.

The FIG was sacred to the god Dionysus.
In Attica, he was also known as Philosykos which means fig friend.
Because of this, statues of the god were often carved out of fig wood. This also applied to the large phallus symbols for the Dionysus processions which filled even Heraclites with indignation.

A positive association to the Fig tree was also to be found among the ancient Romans.
They carved figures of the god Priapus from fig wood. Priapus was, among other things, the protector of figs.
The Ficus Ruminalis had a special significance for Rome.
According to legend, it was under this tree that the basket, containing the twins Romulus and Remus, was washed up by the floods of the Tiber.
It was here that the she-wolf found and nursed them.

Furthermore, the fig had a sexual relevance in the Bible and also among the Greeks.
The fig is the first fruit to be mentioned by name in the Bible and also the only fruit of Paradise to be named at all.
Augustinus expressed the sensuous meaning of the fig,”foliis ficulneis significatur pruritum libidinis”-“fig leaves imply the itch of sensuality”.
When Adam made himself the apron of fig leaves he was signifying by these leaves the itchy lust he had come down to by sinning.
This is why we have the metaphor of the fig leaf being used to cover the object of embarrassment.

Since the fourth century, in post biblical tradition, we are told that of three trees, elder, black elder and fig, the fig tree was most likely to have been the tree where Judas hanged himself. The act would not have been feasible from the first two.

It is easy to hang up the poster thanks to its strong edges.

Size: 64, 5 x 91, 5 cm
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