"Passion fruit (fruit) The passion fruit is the fruit of a number of plants in the ""Passiflora"" family. Edible passion fruits can be divided into three main types: There's also sweet granadilla (""Passiflora ligularis""). Passion fruits are round or oval. They can be yellow, red, purple, and green. The fruits have a juicy edible center composed of a large number of seeds. The fruit is a source of carbohydrates, carotene, vitamin C, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, fiber, and protein. The part of the fruit that is used (eaten) is the pulpy juicy seeds. Passion fruits can also be squeezed"
"Passiflora ligularis Passiflora ligularis, commonly known as the sweet granadilla or grenadia, is a plant species in the genus ""Passiflora"". It is known as ""granadilla"" in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru; ""granadilla común in"" Guatemala; ""granadilla de China"" or ""parchita amarilla"" in Venezuela and ""granaditta"" in Jamaica. The epithet ""ligularis"" comes from the plant's ligulate corollae. It is native to the Andes Mountains, mainly Peru, including Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. It grows as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Mexico. Outside of its native range it grows in the tropical mountains of"
"Africa and Australia (where they are known as passionfruit or Granadilla), and is now common in local markets of Papua New Guinea, where it is known as 'sugar fruit'. It likes climates ranging from 15° to 18 °C and between 600 and 1000 mm of annual rain. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1700 to 2600 meters above sea level.They have abundant, simple leaves and greenish-white flowers. The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 cm long and"
"Giant granadilla The giant granadilla, barbadine (Trinidad), grenadine (Haiti), giant tumbo or badea (), ටං ටිං (), Passiflora quadrangularis, produces the largest fruit of any species within the genus ""Passiflora"". It is a perennial native to the Neotropics, having smooth, cordate, ovate or acuminate leaves; petioles bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an emetic and narcotic root; scented flowers; and a large, oblong fruit, containing numerous seeds, embedded in a subacid edible pulp. The badea is sometimes grown in greenhouses. The fruits of several other species of Passiflora are eaten. ""P. laurifolia"" is the water lemon and ""P. maliformis"" the"
"red flowers, each surrounded by white and purple filaments. Requiring a minimum temperature of , in temperate zones it must be grown under glass. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. Giant granadilla The giant granadilla, barbadine (Trinidad), grenadine (Haiti), giant tumbo or badea (), ටං ටිං (), Passiflora quadrangularis, produces the largest fruit of any species within the genus ""Passiflora"". It is a perennial native to the Neotropics, having smooth, cordate, ovate or acuminate leaves; petioles bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an emetic and narcotic root; scented flowers; and a large, oblong fruit, containing"
"Its propagation is by seeds. The fruits are eaten fresh and reportedly quite good in flavor. The bell apple is a native to the Amazon jungle region. ""Passiflora nitida"" is also a useful fruit in a drink called Purple Passion. ""Passiflora nitida"" has one of the widest geographic ranges. It grows in the tropical lowlands from Costa Rica in the north and French Guiana in the northeast, through wide parts of Brazil. Passiflora nitida Passiflora nitida, the bell apple, is a tasty, but relatively unknown passion fruit. It is similar to ""P. laurifolia"", with orange-yellow fruits that have a sweet,"
"""China"" where the orange, a similar-looking fruit, originated. The fruit is known as maracuyá or parcha in Spanish, grenadille or fruit de la passion in French. ""P. edulis"" is a perennial vine; tendrils are borne in leaf axils, and have a red or purple hue when young. There are two main varieties: a purple-fruited type, ""P. edulis"" f. ""edulis"", and the yellow-fruited ""P. edulis"" f. ""flavicarpa"". Usually the vine produces a single flower 5–7.5 cm wide at each node. The flower has 5 oblong, green sepals and 5 white petals. The sepals and petals are 4-6mm in length and form"
"white or soft purple, also mixed white and blueish purple, one flower per stem. The sepals are long and wide. Flowers have 150–200 stamens. The fruit occurs in heads rounded to subcylindric in shape, with pedicels long. The achenes are ellipsoid in shape, not winged, covered with villous hairs, with beaks curved that reflex as they age and long, feather-like. Generally, the fruit persists into fall. Native to far western North America including British Columbia to California and Montana, it is found growing in gravelly soils on slopes and in moist meadows. Pulsatilla Pass in Banff National Park is named"
"Grapefruit The grapefruit (""Citrus"" × ""paradisi"") is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour to semi-sweet, somewhat bitter fruit. Grapefruit is a hybrid originating in Barbados as an accidental cross between two introduced species, sweet orange (""C. sinensis"") and pomelo, or shaddock (""C. maxima""), both of which were introduced from Asia in the seventeenth century. When found, it was named the ""forbidden fruit""; and frequently, it has been misidentified with the pomelo. The grapefruit's name alludes to clusters of the fruit on the tree, which often appear similar to that of grapes. The evergreen grapefruit trees usually grow to"
"rounded pear shaped fruit cauliflorously (on the trunk). Inside the hard green shell that contain several large seeds about 4 cm in diameter. The yellowish-orange pulp is edible, is usually boiled after which it is said to resemble meat in taste. It is rich in A, B and C vitamins. The tree is not widely known outside its native range from Ecuador to Panama and Venezuela, but has been planted in tropical botanical gardens, including in Singapore (where it is referred to as 'pungol') and Australia. Gustavia superba Gustavia superba is an understory tree that grows in Central and North-Western"
"achieved great commercial success, but its unique flavor, early and long season, and prolific nature have led to its increasing popularity in backyard orchards in southern California. Besides being good for eating fresh, 'Cocktail' may be used to make marmalade or jam, candied peel, syrup, or in cocktails and smoothies. Mandelo A mandelo (or ""Mandalo"", also known as a ""cocktail grapefruit"") is a citrus fruit that is smaller than a grapefruit, has yellow or yellow-green coloured skin and bright yellow or yellow-orange flesh, but is sweeter than a grapefruit. The mandelo was developed in the 1950s at the UC Citrus"
"Mandelo A mandelo (or ""Mandalo"", also known as a ""cocktail grapefruit"") is a citrus fruit that is smaller than a grapefruit, has yellow or yellow-green coloured skin and bright yellow or yellow-orange flesh, but is sweeter than a grapefruit. The mandelo was developed in the 1950s at the UC Citrus Experiment Station, but then escaped into public orchards. It is a white-fleshed tri-specific citrus hybrid between a 'Frua' hybrid mandarin ('Dancy' mandarin × 'King tangor') and a Siamese Sweet pommelo. This makes it 1/4 King tangor, 1/4 Dancy tangerine, and 1/2 Siamese Sweet Pommelo. It is named for its ancestors,"
"Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón in Costa Rica, golden apple in Grenada, Saint Vincent"
"Passiflora nitida Passiflora nitida, the bell apple, is a tasty, but relatively unknown passion fruit. It is similar to ""P. laurifolia"", with orange-yellow fruits that have a sweet, succulent pulp. It is a fast-growing tropical vine. Its flowers are blue and red, a bit like ""P. laurifolia"" and ""P. quadrangularis"". The fruits grow up to . The exact hardiness in unknown, but it is tropical and should be protected from prolonged temperatures below . It is not frost hardy. ""Passiflora nitida"" is the cousin of almost all the ""Passiflora"" species like ""P. actinia"", ""P. flavicarpa"", ""P. loefgrenii"" and so on."
"States, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain. ""Passiflora ligularis"", is an evergreen climbing shrub, producing stems of up to 5 meters long. The stems scramble over the ground or clamber into the surrounding vegetation, attaching themselves by means of coiling tendrils. Passiflora ligularis Passiflora ligularis, commonly known as the sweet granadilla or grenadia, is a plant species in the genus ""Passiflora"". It is known as ""granadilla"" in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru; ""granadilla común in"" Guatemala; ""granadilla de China"" or ""parchita amarilla"" in Venezuela and ""granaditta"" in Jamaica. The epithet ""ligularis"" comes from the plant's ligulate"
"distributed in Europe and the United States between November and April, and is on occasion available from July to September. Ugli fruit The ugli or ugli fruit is a Jamaican form of tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo), an orange and a tangerine. Its species is ""Citrus reticulata"" × ""Citrus paradisi"". Ugli was discovered growing wild (possibly having developed in the same way grapefruit was created) in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today. The name is a variation of the word ""ugly"", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind,"
"grapefruit was the Jamaican sweet orange (""Citrus sinensis""), itself an ancient hybrid of Asian origin; the other was the Indonesian pomelo (""C. maxima""). One story of the fruit's origin is that a certain ""Captain Shaddock"" brought pomelo seeds to Jamaica and bred the first fruit, however, it probably originated as a naturally occurring hybrid between the two plants some time after they had been introduced there. The hybrid fruit, then called ""the forbidden fruit"", was first documented in 1750 by a Welshman, Rev. Griffith Hughes, who described specimens from Barbados in ""The Natural History of Barbados"". Currently, the grapefruit is"
"Tangelo The tangelo ( , ; ""C. reticulata × C. maxima"" or ""x C. paradisi""), ""Citrus × tangelo"", is a citrus fruit hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit. Sometimes referred to as honeybells, they are the size of an adult fist, have a tart, tangy, tangerine taste, and are juicy at the expense of flesh. They generally have loose skin and are easier to peel than oranges, readily distinguished from them by a characteristic ""nipple"" at the stem. Tangelos can be used as a substitute for mandarin oranges or sweet oranges. The early maturing Orlando tangelo is noted for"
"Garcinia prainiana Garcinia prainiana, known as the button mangosteen or cherapu is a species of ""Garcinia"". It has a flavor similar to, but distinct from, its cousin, the purple mangosteen, with an interesting taste some have compared to a tangerine, but unlike its cousin, it has a tissue-thin skin rather than a hard rind, making it much easier to eat out-of-hand. Also unlike the purple mangosteen, it can be grown in a container. The fruit is cultivated in Southeast Asia, by a few backyard growers in South Florida, and at the Whitman Rare Fruit Pavilion of Florida's Fairchild Tropical Botanic"
"orange, according to Swingle, belongs to a citrus related genera, called Poncirus, while grapefruit equivocally belongs to the genus citrus, hence the botanical name ""X citroncirus"" is a hybrid genus, derived from citrus and poncirus. Citrumelo Citrumelo or Citromelo (""X Citroncirus"" spp.) is also called ""Swingle citrumelo trifoliate hybrid"", because it is a cold hardy citrus hybrid between a 'Duncan' grapefruit and a trifoliate orange (""Poncirus trifoliata"" (L.) Raf.), developed by Walter Tennyson Swingle. Citrumelo is widely employed as a citrus rootstock, being resistant to the severe citrus tristeza virus and to the Phytophthora foot rot as well as to"
"both the fruits and the tender leaves are eaten. Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón"
"Passiflora edulis Passiflora edulis is a vine species of passion flower that is native to southern Brazil through Paraguay and northern Argentina. It is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit, commonly called passion fruit. The fruit is a pepo, a type of berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit is both eaten or juiced, the juice often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma. The passion fruit is so called because it is one of the"
"Tangerine The tangerine (""Citrus tangerina"") is a group of orange-colored citrus fruit consisting of hybrids of mandarin orange (""Citrus reticulata""). The name was first used for fruit coming from Tangier, Morocco, described as a mandarin variety. Under the Tanaka classification system, ""Citrus tangerina"" is considered a separate species. Under the Swingle system, tangerines are considered to be a group of mandarin (""C. reticulata"") varieties. Genetic study has shown tangerines to be mandarin orange hybrids containing some pomelo DNA. Some differ only in disease resistance. The term is currently applied to any reddish-orange mandarin (and, in some jurisdictions, mandarin-like hybrids, including"
"was known in early English as ""apple of Grenada""—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology, confusing the Latin ""granatus"" with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic. Garnet derives from Old French ""grenat"" by metathesis, from Medieval Latin ""granatum"" as used in a different meaning ""of a dark red color"". This derivation may have originated from ""pomum granatum"", describing the color of pomegranate pulp, or from ""granum"", referring to ""red dye, cochineal"". The French term for pomegranate, ""grenade"", has given its name to the military grenade. A shrub"
"Passiflora alata Passiflora alata, the winged-stem passion flower, is a species of flowering plant. It is an evergreen vine, growing to or more, which bears an edible type of passion fruit. It is native to the Amazon, from Peru to eastern Brazil. The local peoples refer to it as ""ouvaca"", meaning ""red star"" due to the appearance of its flower. Other names include fragrant grenadilla, and ""maracuja de refresco"". The specific epithet ""alata"" means ""winged"", referring to the 4-winged stems. The leaves are oval or oblong, long and wide. The fragrant flower is wide, with red curved tepals, and a"
"Pomegranate The pomegranate (""Punica granatum"") is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree in the family Lythraceae that grows between tall. The fruit is typically in season in the Northern Hemisphere from September to February, and in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May. As intact arils or juice, pomegranates are used in baking, cooking, juice blends, meal garnishes, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine. The pomegranate originated in the region extending from modern-day Iran to northern India, and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region. It was introduced into Spanish America in the"
"Purple mangosteen The purple mangosteen (""Garcinia mangostana""), known simply as mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands of the Malay archipelago and the Moluccas of Indonesia. It grows mainly in Southeast Asia, southwest India and other tropical areas such as Colombia, Puerto Rico and Florida, where the tree has been introduced. The tree grows from tall. The fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible"
"parviflora"" Alston, and ""Rhodomyrtus tomentosa"" (Aiton) Wight. Common names include Ceylon hill gooseberry (English), Downy myrtle (English-Florida), Downy rose myrtle (English-Florida), Feijoa (French), Hill gooseberry (English), Hill guava (English), Isenberg bush (English-Hawaii), Myrte-groseille (French), Kemunting (Malaysia), Gangrenzi (China) and Rose myrtle (English-Florida). It has shown promise as a fire retardant species for use in fire breaks in the Himalayas. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens in tropical and subtropical areas, grown for its abundant flowers and sweet, edible fruit. The fruit can be made into pies and jams, or used in salads. In Phú Quốc, Vietnam, the fruits"
"is also found on Bird Cherry (""Prunus padus""), Almond (""Prunus amygdalus""), Peach and Nectarine (""Prunus persica""). The Mirabelle or Greengage varieties of ""Prunus domestica"" may be more resistant. The gall is widely distributed, under recorded in the United Kingdom, but found throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The gall is usually known as 'pocket plum', however alternatives are 'starved plum'; 'bladder bullace; and 'mock plum'. The gall appears on the developing fruit, rendering it inedible and resulting in an elongated, flattened, hollow, stone-less gall of any colour from light green, through grey to light orange. The surface of the gall becomes"
"Billardiera longiflora Billardiera longiflora, the purple apple-berry, is a small Australian vine found in cool, moist forests from southern New South Wales to Tasmania, where it is native. It was described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805. The slender leafed vine has greenish-yellow flowers and shiny purple fruit. The fruit is edible. It is classified within the Pittosporaceae family and the ""Billardiera"" genus. This vine is an evergreen climber that tends to twine up around the shrubby under-story of forests with a maximum height of ten meters on tall trees. It can be recognised by its narrow, elliptical shape"
"similar to pineapple, the flavor of the fruit has been described as a combination of strawberries and apple, and sour citrus flavor notes, contrasting with an underlying creamy texture reminiscent of coconut or banana. Soursop is widely promoted (sometimes as ""graviola"") as an alternative cancer treatment, but there is no medical evidence it is effective for treating cancer or any disease. ""Annona muricata"" (common Spanish name: guanábana) is a species of the genus ""Annona"" of the custard apple tree family, Annonaceae, which has edible fruit. The fruit is usually called soursop due to its slightly acidic taste when ripe. ""Annona"
"Terminalia ferdinandiana Terminalia ferdinandiana, also called the gubinge, billygoat plum, Kakadu plum, green plum, salty plum, murunga or mador, is a flowering plant in the family Combretaceae, native to Australia, widespread throughout the tropical woodlands from northwestern Australia to eastern Arnhem Land. It has a high concentration of vitamin C in its fruit: recorded concentrations of 2300–3150 mg/100 g wet weight and occasionally as high as 5300 mg/100 g, compared with 50 mg/100 g for oranges, ranks among the highest known of any natural source. It should not be confused with"" Planchonia careya"", with which it shares some common names."
"fruit, for example: Mollissima and its close relative ""Passiflora mixta"" are vines with cylindrical stems densely coated with yellow hairs, and are vigorous climbers, growing up to seven metres. The leaves are a shiny green with clearly defined veins, the flower is large, pink and green petalled with a yellow and white centre. The fruit is yellow-orange when ripe and contains a sweet edible orange-colored pulp with black seeds. The banana passionfruit is native to the Andean valleys from Venezuela to Bolivia. It was domesticated and cultivated since pre-Colombian times by various cultures of western South America before the Spanish"