Resources Tagged: Fruit Tree Crops

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  1. Atemoya

    Atemoya is a fast-growing tree up to 9 m tall. It is a hybrid of the cherimoya (Annona cherimola) and the sugar apple (Annona squamosa). Atemoyas produce delicious-tasting fruits that resemble the cherimoya in flavor. The fragrant, snow white flesh is both sweet and subacid at the same time. The...
    Fruit Tree Crops Annonas

  2. Soursop

    Soursop is a tropical, low branching and shrubby tree to 10 m in height. Soursop fruits are basically oval shaped, up to 30 cm long and 15 cm wide, weighing up to 7 kg. The least acidic varieties are sometimes consumed fresh or as part of a desert. More typically soursop fruit is processed into...
    JCB Fruit Tree Crops Annonas

  3. Sugar Apple

    Sugar apple is a drought-tolerant tree, growing to 6 m in height, and is the most widely grown of the Annonas. The sweet fruit is eaten fresh and can be used in beverages, ice cream and milkshakes.
    JCB Fruit Tree Crops Annonas

  4. Starfruit

    Starfruit is a medium to large sized tree, growing to 9 m in height, which produces abundant 5-8 ridged fruit from all parts of the plant. The fruits are yellow to yellow-orange, angled longitudinally, and can be up to 15 cm long and 9 cm wide. When cut in cross section the pieces are star shaped...
    JCB Fruit Tree Crops

  5. Tamarind

    Tamarind is an attractive, evergreen, nitrogen fixing tree, growing to 30 m in height, and best adapted to semi-arid conditions. The sweet-tart pulp from the pod is eaten fresh, used as an ingredient in cooking, or made into a refreshing drink. Tamarind wood is used for lumber, firewood, and high...
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  6. Jackfruit

    Jackfruit is famous for producing the world's largest tree-borne fruit. Fruits typically weigh between 4.5 to 20 kgs, but have been reported up to 50 kilograms. The trees can grow to 21 m in height. A large portion of the fruit is edible with high nutritional value, fruits can be eaten green as a...
    JCB Fruit Tree Crops Moraceae Artocarpus heterop... Jackfruit

  7. Loquat

    Loquat is a subtropical or tropical high altitude fruit tree growing to 9 m in height. Loquats are most often grown for their fruitbut can be used for timber. The ripe yellow-orange fruits are most often eaten fresh from the tree, cooked into deserts, or made into jam.
    JCB Fruit Tree Crops

  8. Guava

    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...
    Fruit Tree Crops

  9. Canistel

    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.
    Fruit Tree Crops

  10. Naranjilla

    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...
    Fruit Tree Crops