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A group of tropical fruit. Varieties of tropical fruit include: Abiu; Açaí; Acerola (West Indian cherry; Barbados cherry) Achachairú (Bolivian mangosteen; achacha) Ackee; Atemoya; Avocado (alligator pear) Banana; Bengal currant,(Christ's thorn,[1] Carandas plum, Karonda, Karanda and Kanna) Biribá (lemon meringue pie fruit) Black sapote ...
Afrikaans; العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी; Català
Sapote (/ s ə ˈ p oʊ t iː,-eɪ,-ə /; [1] [2] [3] from Nahuatl: tzapotl [4]) is a term for a soft, edible fruit. [1] The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America. [1] [5] It is also known in Caribbean English as soapapple ...
Unripe fruit. Spondias dulcis (syn. Spondias cytherea), known commonly as April plum, is a tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. In the English-speaking Caribbean it is typically known as golden apple and elsewhere in the Caribbean as pommecythere, June Plum or cythere. In Polynesia it is known as vī.
Ripe apple guavas (Psidium guajava)Guava (/ ˈ ɡ w ɑː v ə / GWAH-və) [1] is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. [2] The common guava Psidium guajava (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family (), native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. [2]
Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Its stone-bearing fruits , commonly called quenepa, ‘’’kenèp’’’ or guinep , are edible.
Malpighia emarginata is a tropical fruit-bearing shrub or small tree in the family Malpighiaceae.. Common names include acerola (from Arabic: الزُّعرُورَة, romanized: az-zuʿrūra "azarole" for a similar looking old-world fruit [4]), Guarani cherry, Barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, [5] and wild crepe myrtle. [6]
The ackee (Blighia sapida), also known as acki, akee, or ackee apple, is a fruit of the Sapindaceae family, as are the lychee and the longan. It is native to tropical West Africa . [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The scientific name honours Captain William Bligh who took the fruit from Jamaica to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew , England, in 1793. [ 2 ]