A dish of carved fruit may feature apples cut like emanating feathers, watermelon shaped like wings, and bananas cut like the beak of a bird.
和插花一樣，果雕重視的是各類水果的排列組合：或成飛鳥、躍魚，或作純粹圖案。其中蘋果常被切排成羽翼狀，充作鳥尾，香蕉加櫻桃易組鳥首，至於削尖的西瓜，就是振翅欲飛的雙翼了。