I found a bunch of DRY fruit in my Garage. Any idea why?

Question

I was just curious why the fruit was dried out like this? It was so dry it was hard on the outside, hollow inside and full of seeds. At first I thought it was fake fruit until I opened it up to the seeds. We just moved in , it was an odd find. I don't know much about gardening but thought this might be some strange way to harvest seeds? There was a pear and what looked like a persimmon (spell check on that one..lol). Any help would be appreciated, if it was for seeds I think I might plant them.

P.S. I just thought there might be some sort of history as to why it was done this way. The fruit was high up on a shelf and well preserved so I doubt animals put it there.

Answer 1

I say use them to plant. As to spelling, you are correct in your spelling of persimmon.

Answer 2

It apparently was regular fruit that sat around too long and became dried out. You now can make a dried fruit salad.

Answer 3

it could be some arts and crafts thing of the former owner or for the seeds.plant em if you want.the fruit doesn't know why it was left there.

Answer 4

animals ,any wild life would hide it there