Fruit carving and displays for various events, such as parties and wedding receptions. On a smaller scale, fruit carvers can present a dish with decorative garnishing to add an aesthetically pleasing experience to their viewers. Fruit carving Fruit carving is the art of carving fruit, a very common technique in Europe and Asian countries, and particularly popular in Thailand, China and Japan. There are many fruits that can be used in this process; the most popular one that artists use are watermelons, apples, strawberries, pineapples, and cantaloupes. Many believe that fruit carving originated in China during the Tang Dynasty, which lasted from
Boletellus ananas named by Moses Ashley Curtis as "Boletus ananas" in 1848, based on specimens he found near the Santee River, in South Carolina. In 1909, William Murrill described the new genus "Boletellus" and made "Boletellus ananas" the type species. According to Murrill, the taxon "Boletus isabellinus", described by Charles Horton Peck in 1897 from specimens collected in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is a synonym of "B. ananas"; Peck described this species from undeveloped specimens. Wally Snell later doubted Murrill's conclusion in a 1933 publication; he considered the differences in the spore structure too great to consider the species conspecific with "B. ananas",