Despite their appealing features, flowers often distress recipients due to their bitter petals, smelly middles, and water-gobbling suckers. Send colorful well-wishes in digestible form with today's Groupon: for $30, you get $60 worth of fresh arrangements from Edible Arrangements, which has pickup locations in Belmont and San Mateo and will deliver to various areas throughout the Bay Area Peninsula (see sidebar for delivery areas).

Edible Arrangements crafts colorful, elegant, and tasty bouquets of fruits and fine sweets for all occasions that arrive fresh at your door. Carefully cut juicy pineapples, honeydews, cantaloupes, strawberries, and grapes grace each of the fruit baskets and can be doused in gourmet chocolate or personalized by adding balloons, bears, fudge, and more. Usher in harvest season with autumnal displays such as the Delicious Fruit Design, which brings together cinnamon-chocolate apple wedges, skewered produce, and a ceramic pumpkin bud vase ($79 small, $89 regular), or inject healthy spirits into a decadent Halloween candy binge with the fruity Ghost Party, boasting pineapple phantasms ($110 regular). Edible Arrangements' wide variety of scrumptious themed selections runs the gamut from birthday and get well to Harley Davidson and Stomp Out Breast Cancer.

The friendly and efficient Edible Arrangements crew is open for business seven days a week and offers same-day deliveries and pick-ups, making today's deal ideal for last-minute party displays, emergency thank-you gifts, or sudden-death nutrition scares. The San Mateo location is fresh from new ownership, while the Belmont spot has served up deliciousness for four years running.

Reviews

Edible Arrangements has a perfect five-star average rating from Yelpers for its Belmont location:

• LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. Great product, delivery or pick-up, friendly service. Doesn't get much better. – Virginia M.
• I can't wait for the next gathering/occasion so that I can place another order! – Liza E.