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The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
The fruit is a berry 5–16 mm (3 ⁄ 16 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally uniformly blue when ripe. [5] They are covered in a protective coating of powdery epicuticular wax, colloquially known as the "bloom". [3]
Citrus bergamia, the bergamot orange, is a fragrant citrus fruit the size of an orange, with a yellow or green colour similar to a lime, depending on ripeness. Genetic research into the ancestral origins of extant citrus cultivars found bergamot orange to be a probable hybrid of lemon and bitter orange.
Fruits of four different banana cultivars. Bamboo – bamboosa ardinarifolia; Banana – mainly Musa × paradisica, but also other Musa species and hybrids; Baobab – Adansonia; Bay – Laurus spp. or Umbellularia spp. Bay laurel – Laurus nobilis (culinary) California bay – Umbellularia californica; Bean – Fabaceae, specifically ...
The fruit of the damson can also be identified by its shape, which is usually ovoid and slightly pointed at one end, or pyriform; its smooth-textured yellow-green flesh; and its skin, which ranges from dark blue to indigo to near-black depending on the variety (other types of Prunus domestica can have purple, yellow or red skin). [21]
These nine fruits—passion fruit, raspberries, guava, blackberries, avocado, persimmon, dragon fruit, pear and kiwi—each deliver distinctive nutrition and flavor profiles.
Passiflora caerulea (maracujá-azul, blue passionfruit) Passiflora cincinnata (maracujá-mochila) Passiflora coccinea (maracujá-poranga) Passiflora edulis (maracujá, passionfruit) Passiflora eichleriana (maracujá-de-cobra) Passiflora elegans (maracujá-de-estalo) Passiflora foetida (wild water lemon, wild maracujá, love-in-a-mist, running pop)
Pollia condensata, sometimes called the marble berry, [2] [3] [4] is a perennial herbaceous plant with stoloniferous stems and hard, dry, shiny, round, metallic blue fruit. It is found in forested regions of Africa. [5] The blue colour of the fruit, created by structural coloration, is the most intense of any known biological material.