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What type of new fruit should you use on Rosh Hashana?

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What type of new fruit should you use on Rosh  Hashana? So, in general, to make a Shehechiyanu   on a new fruit, there are different opinions,  and it could be quite complex. Some say that   you don't make a Shehechiyanu on a new fruit  unless it is obvious that it came from the new   harvest. Fruit like apples and oranges, which  are available in the store all year round, you   cannot make a Shehechiyanu on them. Even if you  know that this orange is straight from the tree,   it was just from the new harvest, many hold  do not make a Shehechiyanu on oranges because   they're available in the store all year and one  can't readily see the difference between the new   oranges and the old oranges. Fruit that people  do make a Shehechiyanu, or some people make a   Shehechiyanu on, would be, let's say, peaches,  nectarines, summer fruit, which are only available   in the stores certain months of the year. But  on grapes, apples, oranges, even pomegranates   which are available all year round, the people  generally do not make a Shehechiyanu. However,   when it comes Rosh Hashana, because anyways, one  has to make the Shehechiyanu on the new fruit,   people are much more lenient and they will  use all types of new fruit for the bracha.   People will find fruit that they haven't eaten  in many months, exotic fruit that they haven't   seen before and they'll use that for the  Shehechiyanu. And really, whatever you use   is fine cuz even if you had no new fruit anyways  you would be saying the bracha of Shehechiyanu.