Tropical fruit
Fruits that typically grow in warm tropical climates
There are many fruits that typically grow in warm tropical climates or equatorial areas.
Tropical fruits
Varieties of tropical fruit include:
- Acerola (West Indian Cherry or Barbados Cherry)
- Ackee
- Banana
- Barbadine (granadilla; maracujá-açu in Portuguese)
- Brazil nut
- Breadfruit
- Canistel
- Carambola (star fruit or five fingers)
- Cashew
- Cherimoya
- Caimito (caimite; related to the yellow abiu - egg fruit)
- Cocoa chocolate
- Coconut
- Coffea
- Cupuaçu
- Custard apple
- Durian
- Genipap
- Governor's plum
- Guaraná
- Guava
- Hog plum (taperebá in Portuguese)
- Jackfruit
- Longan
- Lychee
- Macadamia
- Mamey sapote (mammee apple; abricó in Portuguese)
- Mamoncillo
- Mango
- Mangosteen
- Marang
- Orange
- Papaya
- Passion fruit
- Persimmon
- Pewa (peach nut; pupunha in Portuguese)
- Pili nut
- Pineapple
- Plantain
- Pois doux (ice-cream bean; inga-cipó in Portuguese)
- Quenepa
- Pomegranate
- Pommerac (Otaheite apple; Malay apple; jambo in Portuguese)
- Pommecythere (golden apple or June plum; cajamanga or cajarana in Portuguese)
- Rambutan
- Sapodilla (naseberry)
- Soursop (graviola in Portuguese)
- Sugar apple (ata in Portuguese)
- Sweetsop
- Tamarind
- Wax apple (bell apple)
- White sapote
See also
External links
- Media related to Tropical fruit at Wikimedia Commons
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Types of fruits
- Achene
- Berry
- Hesperidium
- Pepo
- Capsule
- Caryopsis
- Drupe
- Follicle
- Legume
- Loment
- Nut
- Pome
- Samara
- Schizocarp
- Silique
- Syconium
- Accessory fruit
- Simple fruit
- Compound fruit
- Aggregate fruit
- Multiple fruit
- Dehiscent fruit
- Diaspore
- Drift fruit
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