black cake=totally unappetizing

Can anyone identify the nubby, berry-looking things in that trinity bowl picture? We have them around here, but no one can tell me what it is. It looks and smells edible and if I can eat it I want to!

Black cake looks yummy to me. Anyone know where I can buy Bamboo Charcoal in the US?

Squirrely, they are lychee fruit - see a photo here. They are totally delicious! You have to peel off that nubby skin, and there is a white fruit inside. It's sort of like a grape without its skin, but with a rather perfumed taste.

Thanks Faith. Unfortunately, I don't think what I'm talking about are lychees but they do look a lot like them on the outside, but isn't lychee fruit light colored with firm flesh? My mystery berries are smoother on the outside but still have that scale/cell look, and have an orange flesh, like a mango. Despite my husband's protests, I did break the skin open and, since it smelled sweet and "not poisonous," I put my tongue to it (I know, I should have my grown-ups license revoked). It tasted really sweet and it's soft, again, like a ripe mango. I didn't eat it, I was just super curious. Is it possible a variety of lychee?

The mussells in white wine look divine.

Squirrely, do they come off of a manzinita-looking bush/tree that has clusters of bell-shaped flowers? It might be a strawberry tree. According to Arbor Day the berries are edible.