Selected 25 Fruit Chart

Names	Description	Fruit	Comments/Varieties	Cont.	Cold
Atemoya Annona squamosa × A. cherimola	Small, spreading tree with medium growth rate	Large, sweet, light green aggregate fruit. Used fresh.	African pride, Gefner, Page	1-2	1
Avocado, Agucate Persea americana	Large, fast growing tree	Large green or purple, nutty tasting yellow flesh. Used fresh with salads. Becomes bitter if cooked.	Simmonds, Miguel, Bernecker, Russel, Catalina, Waldin, Monroe, Fairchild, Choquette, Kampong	0-2	2-3
Banana, Platáno Musa sp.	Fast growing, herbaceous shrub with multiple stems.	Large, yellow, sweet	Hua Moa, Orinoco, Red, Mysore, FHIA3, Cavendish	0-2	1
Barbados Cherry, Acerola Malpighia glabra	Large, moderate growing shrub with multiple trunks.	Large, red, sweet or tart berry. Excellent source of vitamin C. Use fresh	Seed, air layers best. Florida Sweet	2-3	1
Black Sapote Sapote negro Diospyros digyna	Large, slow growing tree	Large, dark green-black, sweet. Fresh or as pie filling.	Seedlings, Bernecker, Merida	1-2	1
Star Fruit, Carambola Averrhoa carambola	Medium tree with medium growth rate	Large, yellow/orange, five ribbed, sweet or tart. Usually used fresh but can be cooked.	Arkin, Golden Star, Fwang Tung. Susceptible to wind damage.	2+	2
Egg Fruit, Canistel Pouteria campechiana	Medium to large, moderate to fast growing tree	Variable shape, sweet, dry yellow flesh. Use fresh or cooked as pie filling.	Seed/grafted. Bruce, Ross, Fairchild 1, 2.	2-3	1
Grumichama Eugenia brasiliensis	Small, slow growing tree/shrub	Small, sweet, purple to black, slightly resinous. Ripe eaten fresh, half ripe as preserves.	Seedlings. There are other small, attractive fruit producing Eugenias.	2-3	1
Guava, Guayaba Psidium guajava Psidium sp.	Small, medium growing tree	Medium/large, round sweet and aromatic. Fresh or cooked.	Red, Yellow Asian. Susceptible to fruit fly. Several species.	2-3	1/3
Jaboticaba Myrciaria cauliflora Myrciaria sp.	Small, slow growing tree	Grape-like, black, sweet. Use fresh or as juice if skinned.	Seed, rarely grafted.	2-3	2
Jakfruit, Jaca Artocarpus heterophyllus	Large, moderate to fast growing tree	Very large, rounded or elongated, aggregated fruit. Cook full grown but not ripe as a vegetable Ripe fruit: pulp around seeds eaten fresh and seeds cooked.	Seed, cuttings. N-S-1, Singapore, Ceylon, J- 31, Dang Raisimi, Honey Gold, Cheena, Kun Wi Chan and others.	0	1
Longan Dimocarpus longan	Large, fast growing tree	Small/medium, brown, sweet. Usually eaten fresh - can be dried or cooked.	Air layers. Kohala, Big Boy, Champoo, others. Less demanding than lychee.	2-3	2
Loquat, Nispero japones Eriobotrya japonica	Small to medium tree with medium growth rate.	Small, round to oval, yelloworange, sweet. Used fresh or cooked.	Seed, but air layers better - Champagne, Tanaka, others. Susceptible to fruit fly.	3	3+
Lychee, Mamoncillo lichi Litchi chinensis	Large tree with a moderate to fast rate of growth.	Medium, round to oval with red rough skin, sweet white pulp. Usually fresh, but can be dried.	Mauritius, Hak Ip, Kwai May Pink, (Brewster, production unreliable).	2-3	3
Macadamia Nut Macadamia integrifolia M. tetraphylla	Medium, slow growing tree.	Nut with very hard shell, white kernel.	Air layers best. Arkin, Kau, others. May experience nutritional problems on limestone and is susceptible to wind damage.	2-3	2
Mamey Sapote, Sapote Pouteria sapota	Large, fast growing tree	Large, scurfy oval to round, sweet to subacid, orange flesh. Usually fresh, as well as sherbets and ice cream.	Maga a Canistel, Pantin, Pace many others - seed but grafted best.	1-2	1
Mango Mangifera indica	Medium to large tree with medium growth rate.	Medium to large, various colors, sweet to resinous. Used fresh or in preserves and baked goods. Some varieties harvested hard and green for use in Asian cuisine.	Glenn, Carrie, Kent, Florigon, Nam Doc Mai, Cogshall, Mallika, Keitt, Beverley, Okrung, Dot, Saigon, Cushman, Philippine, Carabao many others.	0-2	1-2
Sapodilla, Nispero, Chicosapote, Naseberry. Manilkara zapota	Large, slow growing tree	Large, scurfy, tan to brown, with sweet tan pulp. Used as a fresh desert, but can be cooked as a pie filling.	Seed, grafted better - Prolific, Brown Sugar, Hasya, Ox, Tikal, Makok, Alano, Molix. Excellent ornamental.	1-2	2
Caimito, Star apple Chrysophyllum cainito	Medium to large tree with medium growth rate.	Large, purple or green. Use fresh - spoon out flesh and avoid skin and rind.	Haitian Star, Purple, Green, others. Excellent ornamental.	1	1
Spanish lime, Mamoncillo, Quenepa Melicoccus bijugus	Large, slow growing tree	Medium, green, subacid white pulp. Used fresh or cooked for juice.	Seed, air layers. Queen, Sosa, Cuban 1, 2. Need both male and female plants for fruit.	0	0
Soursop, Guanabana Annona muricata	Small tree with medium growth rate.	Large, green with soft spines, sweet. Use fresh and in ice creams.	Seedlings , selections from Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. Very cold sensitive.	2-3	2
Sugar apple, Sweetsop, Anon, Annona Annona squamosa	Small tree with medium growth rate.	Large, segmented light greenish yellow, with sweet creamy pulp. Eaten fresh	Grafted or seed, Lessard, Purple. Well adapted to S. Florida	3	1
White Sapote, Sapote Blanco Casimiroa edulis C. tetrameria	Large, fast growing tree.	Medium - large, smooth, greenish yellow, with sweet, pear-like flavor.	Seeds, grafted best. Dade, Homestead, Smathers.	2	3
Tamarind, Tamarindo Tamarindus indica	Large Tree with medium growth rate.	Pod with brown date like pulp used fresh or dried and as base for sauces and chutneys.	Seeds, air layers or grafted. Manila Sweet and others. Excellent ornamental and shade. Very wind resistant.	1-2	1
Wax Jambu Syzygium samarangense	Large fast growing tree	Medium, crisp, sweet, watery	Seeds, airlayers, few grafted.	0-1	0

25 Selected Tropical Fruits

at a Glance