Fruits

Fruits

Contributors in Fruits

Fruits

It’s a fruit of South and South-East Asia. From there, it spread to other tropical parts of the world. It is a quite common tree in the home gardens in South East Asian countries. The green as well ...

bignay

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

Bignay is found wild in the wetter parts of India, from the Himalaya southwards and eastwards, in Sri Lanka, Burma and Malaysia. This tree is cultivated extensively in many parts of Indonesia, ...

bilimbi

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

This rare exotic fruit is very popular in Thailand, Malaya and Singapore. In India, where it is usually found in gardens, the bilimbi has gone wild in the warmest regions of the country. Outside ...

cannonball tree

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

This is an evergreen tree allied to the Brazil nut and is native to tropical northern South America and the southern Caribbean. In India, it has been growing for the past two or three thousand years ...

egg fruit

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

It’s a lesser known fruit of the American tropics. In India, it is only known and eaten in a few localities and is seldom utilized commercially. It is an evergreen, small sized tree of the family ...

fijian longan

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

Fijian longan is a tropical fruit mainly from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, The Philipines, East Indonesia, Papua and the Pacific Islands. It is not a very common fruit found elsewhere. The fruit is round or ...

gourka

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

This tree is a native of the area from India to Malaya. It has widely spreading branches, even sometimes drooping; a milky latex is exuded from broken parts. Leaves are opposite, leathery to 19 x 6 ...