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The tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) is a tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family). It bears the tamarillo, an egg-shaped edible fruit. [2] It is also known as the tree tomato, [3] tomate de árbol, tomate andino, tomate serrano, blood fruit, poor man's tomato, tomate de yuca, tomate de españa, sachatomate, berenjena, chilto and tamamoro in South America ...
Common English names for the plant and its fruit are Indian fig opuntia, Barbary fig, cactus pear, prickly pear, and spineless cactus, among many others. [3] In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, a name that may be used in American English as culinary terms. Peninsular Spanish mostly uses higo chumbo for the fruit and chumbera for the ...
A jaboticaba [3] (/d͡ʒæbɒtɪˈkɑːbə/), spelled jabuticaba in Portuguese, is a round, edible fruit produced by a jaboticaba tree (Plinia cauliflora), also known as Brazilian grapetree. The purplish-black, white-pulped fruit grows directly on the trunk of the tree, making it an example of 'cauliflory'.
Datura innoxia is quite similar to D. metel, to the point of being confused with it in early scientific literature. D. metel is a closely related plant, believed until recently to be of Old World provenance (though now thought to have been brought to Asia from the Antilles no earlier than the sixteenth century) and misconstrued as being referred to in the works of Avicenna in eleventh century ...
Byrsonima crassifolia is a slow-growing large shrub or tree to 10 metres (33 ft). Sometimes cultivated for its edible fruits, the tree is native and abundant in the wild, sometimes in extensive stands, in open pine forests and grassy savannas, from central Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; it also occurs in Trinidad, Barbados, Curaçao, St. Martin ...
Litsea garciae, also known as engkala, engkalak, kangkala, pangalaban and Borneo avocado, is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lauraceae and genus Litsea. [2] [3] [better source needed] It is native to Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi.
Annona reticulata is a small deciduous or semi-evergreen tree in the plant family Annonaceae. [5] It is best known for its fruit, called custard apple, [2] a common name shared with fruits of several other species in the same genus: A. cherimola [6] and A. squamosa. [7] Other English common names include ox heart and bullock's heart.
Feijoa sellowiana [2] [3] also known as Acca sellowiana (O.Berg) Burret, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae.It is native mainly to the highlands of southern Brazil and the hills of northeast Uruguay, but it can also be found in eastern Paraguay and northern Argentina.