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Solanum quitoense, known as naranjilla [3] (Spanish pronunciation: [naɾaŋˈxiʝa], "little orange") in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama and as lulo ([ˈlulo], from Quechua) in Colombia, is a tropical perennial plant from northwestern South America.
It is a small tree growing to 8 m tall. It has hard, cannonball-like fruit 7–10 cm diameter, that are difficult to break into. It is believed that these fruit characteristics evolved as a defense mechanism against seed predation by long-dead megafauna of the region.
Talisia esculenta is a medium-sized tree native to the Amazon Basin, and is found in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia.. The tree and fruit are called pitomba in English, Portuguese and Spanish, olho-de-boi, pitomba-rana and pitomba-de-macaco in Portuguese, pitoulier comestible in French and cotopalo in Spanish and karajá bola in Guarani.
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.
Calafate flower. Berberis microphylla, common name box-leaved barberry [2] and Magellan barberry, [3] in Spanish calafate and michay and other names, [4] is an evergreen shrub, with simple, shiny box-like leaves.
Spondias purpura is a species of flowering plant in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from Mexico to northern Colombia and the southwest Caribbean Islands.
The maguey flower (Agave spp.), in Spanish, flor de maguey (Spanish pronunciation:), also known locally as gualumbo, hualumbo, quiote or jiote [1] [n. 1] is a typical product of Mexican cuisine, cultivated mainly in the rural areas of the center of the country.
Oenocarpus bacaba is an economically important monoecious fruiting palm native to South America and the Amazon rainforest, which has edible fruits.This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.