Peach or Pumpkin?

Rather than catching up on sleep after we finished writing the first edition of Pro Core Data for iOS, Michael Privat and I have been working both on the second edition of that book and on another book: Beginning Mac OS X Lion Apps Development
. It’s been a much different kind of project: we build a single application throughout the book, adding functionality to illustrate different aspects of OS X application development as we go. Sometimes it’s a challenge to stay at beginner level while still building a useful application that will eventually end up in the App Store, so we’ll be interested to watch reader feedback.

I decided to check Amazon today to see if the book was there yet, and indeed it was. This is actually our first opportunity to see the cover art, and I was interested to see what fruit Apress had selected. They’ve already used all the obvious fruits, so I expected something exotic. When we first saw the cover of our Core Data book, we had to ask Apress what it fruit it was (it’s a dragonfruit). Now, I’m similarly befuddled: the fruit on the Lion book is colored like a peach but shaped like a pumpkin. Anyone know what that is?