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
- 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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