1. Guava is a small evergreen tree growing up to 10m in height with smooth, thinflaking bark. The fruit is round, generally yellow when ripe, and up to 10cm in diameter. The fruit is eaten fresh or made into juice, jam, or a thick guava paste.Guava seeds do not come true to type and a hybrid will...
  2. Canistel is an evergreen tree typically growing to 8 m but can grow to 30 m. The sweet fruit is yellow and soft when ripe and gets up to 28 cm long and 7 cm wide. The tree and fruit contain a sticky latex and the fruit must be allowed to ripen fully before eating.
  3. Naranjilla is a thorny perennial plantthat can reach up to 2.5 m in height. Itproducesyellowish-orange hairy fruit with green seedy flesh that has a subacid flavor and isused to make juices, jams, jellies, and flavoring for ice cream or sherbet. The skin of the fruitis not usually eaten and can...
  4. Tree tomatoes are small, half-woody, fast growing, solanaceous trees reaching 3 to 5.5 m in height that are native to South American highlands. Tree tomatoes are edible and can be consumed either as a fruit or vegetable. In the tropics, tree tomatoes do best at elevations between 1500 and 2800...
  5. Papaya is not actually a tree, but a large herbaceous perennial that can grow to 10 m in height. The fruits are born in clusters just below the point where the leaves emerge from the upper part of the stem. The fruits can be up to 50 cm long and 20 cm wide and have a thick, yellow to orange flesh...
  6. Black sapote is a tall, attractiveevergreen tree growing to 25 m in height. It bears round green fruit up to 12cm in diameter. The fruit is picked green when the calyx lifts away from the fruit and then it is allowed to ripen until it is brown and mushy. At this stage, it containscustard-like,...
  7. The Strawberry tree is a fast growing evergreen tree to 13 m in height. The trees bear abundant small red berries that are eaten fresh. Strawberry trees are also used for landscaping and firewood.
  8. 2015/07/23 Naranjilla (pronounced na-ran-hee-ya) means ‘little orange’ in Spanish, but it is not a citrus crop. It is actually a relative of tomato, eggplant and pepper, being a member of the Solanaceae (also known as ‘nightshade’) family. Grown for its yellow to orange fruits, it has been described as “the...
  9. Cattley guava is a small evergreen tree growing up to 10 m in height with smooth, thinflaking bark. The small fruit is red or yellow and up to 4 cm in diameter. The fruits are eaten fresh orused for jam, and the plant is sometimes used as an ornamental.This species can become invasive if not...
  10. Indian jujube can be a bushy shrub or a tree, drought tolerant, with or without thorns, up to 12 m in height. The ripe fruits are typically 1 cm in diameter; selected varieties may have fruits up to 6 cm long and 4 cm wide, and are usually consumed raw.