Naked Limes in the City?
September 15, 2014 2:47 PM Subscribe
While I was visiting NYC with a friend, we found this weird naked-lime-looking plant outside of a bodega.
It was in the cut flowers buckets, alongside some red brain-coral-type flowers (that I've since looked up and identified), obviously for home decor. We asked the bodega's cashier what the plant was, but she didn't know.
The bulbs looked light and hollow and dented when poked lightly. The largest were maybe 2" across and all of them have soft, curved spikes. They really do look like naked (peeled) limes but had no scent (that we could discern). Sorry, the photo is a bit blurry; my camera was having issues that whole weekend.
Any ideas here?
It was in the cut flowers buckets, alongside some red brain-coral-type flowers (that I've since looked up and identified), obviously for home decor. We asked the bodega's cashier what the plant was, but she didn't know.
The bulbs looked light and hollow and dented when poked lightly. The largest were maybe 2" across and all of them have soft, curved spikes. They really do look like naked (peeled) limes but had no scent (that we could discern). Sorry, the photo is a bit blurry; my camera was having issues that whole weekend.
Any ideas here?
Response by poster: Thank you, acidic! My search terms didn't include balloon!
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