Fruits

Fruits

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medlar

Plants; Trees

A small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple, with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste.

loquat

Plants; Trees

A small evergreen tree, Eriobotrya japonica, native to China and Japan, cultivated as an ornamental and for its fuzzy yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively ...

jackfruit

Agriculture; General agriculture

1. a large, tropical tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, with glossy leaves. 2. the knobby, yellow, edible fruit of this plant, reaching the size of a watermelon.

1. Any of several plants of the genus Physalis, as P. pubescens and P. pruinosa, of eastern North America, having yellow flowers and edible yellowish fruit enclosed in a persistent husklike calyx. 2. ...

jabuticaba

Agriculture; General agriculture

The Jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora) is a fruit-bearing tree in the family Myrtaceae native to Minas Gerais and São Paulo states in southeastern Brazil. Related species in the genus Myrciaria, often ...

litchi

Agriculture; General agriculture

1. A Chinese tree (Litchi chinensis) that bears bright red fruits, each of which has a large single seed with a white, fleshy, edible aril. 2. The fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the ...

custard apple

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona, especially A. reticulata, having large, nearly heart-shaped edible fruits with white to yellowish flesh.