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Apart from what we grow for sale, in order to ensure that we serve the best seasonal fruits at our breakfast, we have been working for a long time with the introduction of new crops in small quantities.
Nos encanta que las frutas sean naturales y sabrosas y que vayan directas del árbol a su plato es uno de nuestros mayores orgullos. Otra cosa que nos gusta es dar a conocer nuevos sabores a nuestros clientes, por ello intentados innovar cada año y así vamos probando con el cultivo de nuevas especies tropicales. Es un secreto a voces que en Hermigua se da de todo con facilidad.
All the fruits we serve come from our own harvest or from other small local producers. That way, we know that each product is consistent in flavor and texture and that's what it's all about, the taste for what this land gives, the main reason why you should come try our breakfast.
The pitahaya is a cactus plant and therefore resistant to droughts. It is a succulent, rustic cactus with long triangular stems that usually entwines itself on nearby trees, feeding on the moisture in their bark and climbing the branches.
The pitahaya flower is hermaphrodite and as beautiful as it is short. It appears dazzling in the morning and as it begins to feel the heat of the sun it suddenly dehydrates. It opens only once at night and its penetrating aroma attracts numerous insects. It is self-fertilized, but it can also cross-pollinate, with bats being the best pollinators in its natural environment.
Fruit formation from pollination to harvest takes about four months, although it depends on the temperature.
The tree tomato or tamarillo is a shrub about 3 meters tall, with grayish bark and evergreen foliage. The first historical descriptions place it in Peru, Bolivia and some places in northern Argentina.
The fruit is an ovoid berry with a long stem on which the flower calyx persists. The skin is smooth, red or orange when ripe, with lighter-colored streaks. The pulp is juicy, somewhat acidic, reddish orange, with numerous seeds. They can be eaten raw, directly or in salads, or cooked to prepare juices, sweets and desserts.
La piña es una especie de la familia de las bromeliáceas, se trata de una planta de escaso porte con hojas duras y lanceoladas de hasta 1 m de largo. Fructifica una vez al año produciendo un único fruto fragante y dulce.
El fruto es una pequeña baya, que se fusiona tempranamente con las adyacentes en un sincarpio o infrutescencia, grande y de forma ovoide. El corazón del sincarpo más fibroso se forma a partir del tallo axial engrosado, y las paredes del ovario, la base de la bráctea y los sépalos se transforman en una pulpa amarilla, apenas fibrosa.
The peach tree is a deciduous, unarmed tree that grows up to 8 m tall. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, acuminate, cuneate at the base, serrated with glandular teeth, glabrescent, with deciduous, denticulate stipules. The flowers are solitary or twinned and have numerous bracts. The sepals are erect and entire and the petals are denticulate at the apex, and are bright pink in colour.
Its fruit, the peach, contains a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, the “stone”. This fruit, normally with velvety skin, has a yellow or whitish flesh with a sweet taste and delicate aroma.
El guayabero es un pequeño árbol perteneciente a la familia de las mirtáceas. Sus hojas son simples, oblongas o elípticas de color verde brillante a verde parduzco, muy fragantes cuando se estrujan. Sus flores son solitarias, ocasionalmente se presentan en racimos hasta de 8 cm, siendo axilares, con sépalos de 4 a 5, de color verde en el exterior y blanco en el interior.
Its fruit is a berry highly appreciated for its mild acidity and good flavour. The skin is yellow-green and its interior can be pink, red, white, yellow or orange. The pulp is characterised by containing many small seeds and a sweet aroma.
Grapes are the common name given to the fruits formed in the clusters of the vine. They are used worldwide for fermentation, which gives rise to wine. Planted in vineyards, they grow grouped on the vines, between six and three hundred grapes per cluster. With white or purple pulp and a sweet taste, grapes are consumed, in addition to their industrial uses in wines and raisins, as fresh fruit and in juices.
White wines are characteristic of La Gomera, especially those made from the Forastera Gomera (White Forastera) variety, which covers three quarters of the surface area under vines. But the island is also a reservoir of strains such as Listán Negro, Negramoll, Tintilla, Castellana, Listán Blanco, Malvasía, Gual and Marmajuelo.
The persimmon, also known as palo santo, is a tropical fruit that belongs to the Ebanaceae family. There are different species for consumption, with different sizes and flavours. It has a reddish orange colour reminiscent of tomatoes, and has a succulent, sweet and gelatinous pulp.
This is an exquisite sweet fruit that is oval in shape and is mostly made up of water. Although it is rich in potassium and calcium, it is not recommended for people who suffer from diabetes because it has a high sugar content. The plant that produces this fruit is called prickly pear and is characterized by the scarcity of water it needs. Its origin is in America, specifically in Mexico, but its cultivation is widespread in the Canary Islands, and is even part of the landscape.
The fig tree is a tree of great importance in the landscape and rural life of the Canary Islands. One only has to look at the diversity of names that exist for the different varieties of this fruit, milk figs or brevas. However, both names are correct and correspond to the seasons of the fruit.
El carambolo es un arbusto tropical perenne unos 3 metros de altura, perteneciente a la familia oxalidaceae. Su fruto es la carambola, que también recibe el nombre de fruta de estrella (por su apariencia a una estrella al observar su corte transversalmente).
The carambola fruit is found in clusters on the branches and trunk: thick, ovoid or ellipsoid, yellow-orange in colour when ripe, star-shaped with 5 angles. Its cross section is that of a five-pointed star. Its pulp is juicy, slightly fibrous and acidic.
El nisperero japones es un árbol perennifolio monoico de hasta diez metros de altura, usualmente 6-8 m, copa redondeada, tronco corto de corteza gris y poco fisurada, ramas jóvenes de color pardo claro con pubescencia.
Florece en otoño o a comienzos del invierno, y los frutos maduran a finales del invierno o a principios de la primavera. Los níspero se presentan en racimos, fruto redondeado que cuando madura es de color amarillo o anaranjado, a veces rojizo; pulpa suculenta de sabor dulce, ácido o subácido, blanca, amarilla o anaranjada.
La ciruela es la fruta del ciruelo, nombre común de varias especies arbóreas pertenecientes al subgénero Prunus. La ciruela es una drupa, es decir, un fruto carnoso con una única semilla rodeada de un endocarpo leñoso. Se caracterizan por presentar un tamaño mayor que las frutas del género Prunus denominadas cerezas.
El manzano es un árbol de tamaño mediano, unos 4 m de altura, inerme, caducifolio, de copa redondeada abierta y numerosas ramas que se desarrollan casi horizontalmente. El tronco tiene corteza agrietada que se desprende en placas. El fruto, la manzana, es un pomo de 30-100 por 35-110 mm, globoso, con restos del cáliz en el ápice, verde, amarillo, rojizo, etc… con semillas de 7-8 por 4 mm. La manzana suele madurar hacia el otoño. La del manzano silvestre se diferencia por un color verde amarillento en su piel y de sabor agrio.
El chirimoyo es un árbol perteneciente a la familia de las anonáceas de crecimiento lento y qu puede adquirir en su madurez una altura de 7 a 8 m. Presenta exuberante follaje, porte erguido y a veces ramificado. El tallo es cilíndrico y de corteza gruesa.
Its edible fruit is the cherimoya (from Quechua chiri, 'cold, cold' andmuya, 'seeds', since it germinates at high altitudes). It is considered one of the most appreciated tropical fruits within the genus. The cherimoya has high organoleptic, digestive and nutritional qualities and is appreciated for its medicinal and industrial properties. The grapefruit is a plant of the Citrus genus, of the Rutaceae family, cultivated for its fruit. The grapefruit is a hybrid, probably produced spontaneously, between the pomelo and the sweet orange.
El mangero es un árbol de hoja prenne que puede alcanzar los 45 metros de altura con una copa de 30 metros de diametro. Su fruto, el mango, es jugos y tiene numerosas variedades con formas, colores, texturas y sabores muy variables. Es redondo a oblongo y puede tener pesos de menos de 50 g a más de 2 kg. Consta de una cáscara, una pulpa comestible y una semilla dura y aplanada. Durante el desarrollo del fruto, la cáscara es de un color verde oscuro, que cambia a tonos verdes claros, amarillos, de color naranja, rojos o de color borra de vino al madurar el fruto. Según la variedad, la pulpa del mango maduro es dulce, de textura suave o fibrosa y de color naranja o amarillo. La variedad llamada mango de hilacha es la que mayor cantidad de fibra contiene.
Soursop, a name of Taino origin, is a tree of the Annonaceae family. Native to Central and South America, it is cultivated for its edible fruits in many countries with tropical climates.
It is a small tree, about 5 m high and branched from the base, and gives off a bad smell when crushed. The branches are reddish and hairless, cylindrical, wrinkled, rough and with numerous lenticels.
Its fruit is actually a syncarp, an aggregate of welded fruits, which can have around 170 seeds, each corresponding to an individual fruit. The set is the largest among the Annonaceae, its shell is thin, hard and shiny dark green, covered with soft spines facing towards the apex. The pulp is white, relatively fibrous and very aromatic.
El papayero es un arbusto de tronco no ramificado, presenta una altura entre hasta 3 metros coronado por una corona de hojas largamente pecioladas. Su savia es de consistencia lechosa (de aquí su nombre de «lechosa»), y tóxica en estado natural para el humano, esta savia contiene una enzima muy útil, la papaína.
Papaya bushes have three different types of plants: some with female flowers, others with hermaphrodite flowers, and others with male flowers.
Los frutos, las papayas, poseen una textura suave y una forma oblonga, y pueden ser de color verde, amarillo, naranja o rosa. Suelen pesar en torno a los 600 gramos, disminuyendo la talla de los frutos en función de la edad de la planta.
Passionflower is a climbing plant native to South and Central America that can reach up to nine metres in length under favourable climatic conditions. It belongs to the genus Passiflora and is an invasive plant that feeds on the sap of the plants next to it, on its trunk.
The appearance of the flower, similar to a crown of thorns, led the Spanish colonizers to call it the passion fruit.. La flor se presenta individualmente y puede alcanzar los cinco centímetros de diámetro en las variedades silvestres. Es normalmente blanca, con tintes rosáceos o rojizos, otras especies presentan colores que van desde el rojo intenso hasta el azul pálido.
Su fruto, el maracuya o parchita, es comestible, siendo su cascara de color amarillo, anaranjado o morado. Se trata de una baya oval o redonda, de entre 4 y 10 cm de diámetro, fibrosa y jugosa, recubierta de una cáscara gruesa, cerosa, delicada e incomestible. La pulpa contiene numerosas semillas pequeñas.
The coffee plant is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a straight stem that can reach 10 metres in the wild; in cultivation they are usually kept smaller, around 3 metres. The leaves are elliptical, dark and leathery. It flowers from the third or fourth year of growth, producing axillary, fragrant, white or pinkish inflorescences.
El fruto es una drupa, que se desarrolla en unas 15 semanas a partir de la floración; el endospermo comienza a desarrollarse a partir de la duodécima semana, y acumulará materia sólida en el curso de varios meses, atrayendo casi la totalidad de la energía producida por la fotosíntesis. El mesocarpio forma una pulpa dulce y aromática, de color rojizo, que madura en unas 35 semanas desde la floración.
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