Cherry: Iranian cherry fruits are roughly round with a depression at apex (top) of the fruit. The skin is smooth and shiny and usually ranges from pale to very dark red, although yellow and white cultivars exist. Which City or Province Grow: Tehran + Mashhad Harvest Season: Summer Sweet and sour cherries are the two...

Fig: Iranian fig fruits are bell-shaped, with a wide, flat bottom narrowing to a pointed top. When the fruit ripens, the top may bend, forming a "neck". Figs can be brown, purple, green, yellow or black, and vary in size. The skin is slightly wrinkled and leathery. They are often dried for preservation, since the...

Almond - with Shell: Iranian almonds are oval and flattened in shape and a little over an 2.5 CM long. They are rough, light brown, and have scattered small holes on the shell. A distinct spine separates the two halves of the almond shell. Almond - without Shell: The meat of the almond is darker brown...

Apricot: Iranian apricots are nearly round with a depression at the top where the stem attached. They have a vertical indentation that starts at the stem and goes down one side. The skin is yellow-orange to pink-orange and feels soft and smooth. Apricots can be similar in appearance to peaches and nectarines, but those fruits...

Persimmon: Iranian persimmon fruits are nearly round, shiny, and tough-skinned. They are about 2.5 CM in diameter, and the color when ripe ranges from a pale orange to a slight red color. They ripen from Oct to Nov, usually after the tree has lost its leaves. Which City or Province Grow: Tehran. Harvest Season: Fall....

Peach: Iranian peaches can be red, pink, yellow, or a combination of those colors. On one side of the fruit is a distinctive vertical indentation. Peaches and nectarines look very similar, but they can be told apart by their skin texture: peaches are fuzzy and dull, while nectarines are smooth and shiny. Which City or...

Grape: Iranian grapes grow in elongated clusters on a vine. Which City or Province Grow: Oroumeiyeh + Ghazvin + Mashhad. Harvest Season: Summer + winter. Each fruit is oval-shaped with red, green, or purple skin. The smooth skin often has a powdery, gray film on the surface. Grape vineGrape Vine: Grape vines grow rapidly and...

Apple: Iranian apples have a rounded shape with a depression at the top where the stem is attached. Some apples are almost perfectly round, while others are more rounded at the top and narrower at the bottom. In addition, some have knobby lobes at the calyx end (bottom) of the fruit. Apple fruits are firm...

Pomegranate: Iranian Pomegranates are 7.5 to 10 CM in diameter and round to oblong in shape. The skin is leathery in texture and orange to orange-red in color. The edible portion of the fruit is the juicy red flesh and there are many seeds inside the fruit making it difficult to eat. Which City or...