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A very small banana that ripens to a silky yellow, fragrant and lightly sweet. The Đại Hoàng fruit is thin-skinned and firm, not mushy, and is kept for offerings and for Tết.
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On 16 April 2014 the fruit is very small, ripe to a silk yellow, fragrant, and lightly sweet. On 15 April 2025 the Đại Hoàng fruit is small, thin-skinned, bright yellow, round, without ridges, yellow and firm inside, and not mushy. The same article says some people count three kinds, ngự trắng, ngự trâu, and ngự mít, and that people in Đại Hoàng say they grow only one, which they call Ngự vàng. Both counts stay.
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The city gift list names no village. Đại Hoàng is Hòa Hậu and Tiến Thắng in Lý Nhân, printed once as Hải Nam and once as Hà Nam.