Tropical fruit

There are many fruits that typically grow in warm tropical climates or equatorial areas.

Tropical fruits

Varieties of tropical fruit include:

• Abiu
• Açaí
• Acerola (West Indian cherry; Barbados cherry)
• Achachairú (Bolivian mangosteen; achacha)
• Ackee
• Atemoya
• Avocado (alligator pear)
• Banana
• Bengal currant (Christ's thorn; Carandas plum; Karonda; Karanda; Kanna)
• Biribá (lemon meringue pie fruit)
• Black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit)
• Brazil nut
• Breadfruit
• Cacao pod
• Caimito (star apple)
• Canistel (eggfruit)
• Carambola (star fruit; five fingers)
• Cashew apple
• Chempedak
• Cherimoya

• Coconut
• Coffee cherry
• Cupuaçu
• Custard apple
• Dragon fruit (pitaya)
• Durian
• Genipap
• Governor's plum
• Granadilla (maracujá-açu in Portuguese)
• Guaraná
• Guava
• Hog plum (taperebá in Portuguese)
• Ice-cream bean (inga-cipó in Portuguese)
• Jabuticaba
• Jackfruit

• June plum (golden apple;cajamanga or cajarana in Portuguese)
• jamun
• Indian jujube (Indian plum; Chinese date; Chinee apple; ber; dunks)
• Langsat (longkong)
• Longan (dragon's eye)
• Lúcuma
• Lychee
• Macadamia
• Malay apple (rose apple; pommerac in French)
• Manila tamarind (Madras thorn; monkeypod tree; camachile)
• Mamey apple
• Mamey sapote (abricó in Portuguese)
• Mango
• Mangosteen
• Marang
• Miracle fruit
• Mousami (musami; mosambi; sweet lime; sweet lemon; sweet limetta)
• Natal plum
• Papaya
• Passion fruit
• Peanut butter fruit
• Pewa (peach nut; pupunha in Portuguese)
• Pili nut
• Pineapple
• Plantain
• Pomelo
• Pulasan
• Quenepa (Spanish lime; mamoncillo)
• Rambutan
• Safou (butterfruit)
• Salak (snake fruit)
• Sapodilla (chicle; naseberry)
• Silver date palm (Indian date; sugar date palm; wild date palm)
• Soursop (graviola in Portuguese)
• Strawberry guava (Cattley guava)
• Sugar apple (sweetsop; ata in Portuguese)
• Suriname cherry (pitanga)
• Tamarind
• Wax apple (bell apple)
• White sapote

See also

• List of culinary fruits

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