Ice Cream Bean Tree
Scientific name: Inga Edulis
Native to South America.
Takes around 3 years to fruit from seed.
The fruit is soft and very fluffy like a cotton ball texture.
The fruit actually does kind of taste like vanilla ice cream.
The ice cream bean is a large bean pod and you stick a knife through it and pry it open with your hand and you can take the large pieces of fruit out and enjoy them.
Sabara Jaboticaba tree
Scientific name: Plinia Cauliflora
Native to South America.
Grows up to 10-45 feet tall.
Takes around 3, 5 to 10 years to fruit from seed.
They produce small black fruits all over their trunk and branches.
The fruit taste like a sweet grape flavor.
Rollinia Trees
Scientific name: Annona Mucosa, or Rollinia Deliciosa
Comes from the Amazon region of Peru and Brazil in South America.
Rollinia is a rapid growing tree. They grow long branches and the branches sort of arch over and the tree gets pretty wide.
Takes around 3-4 years to fruit.
Rollinia is a yellow fruit with spikes on it and if the fruit gets knocked around those spikes start to turn black.
Black and Red Surinam Cherry Seedling
Scientific name: Eugenia Uniflora
Native to the country of Suriname and Brazil in South America.
The Surinam cherry is basically a large shrub and gets up to 26 feet in height.
Takes around 2 to 6 years to fruit from seed.
The fruit is a small red or black fruit and it is shaped like a Chinese lantern or a tiny pumpkin.
The fruit tastes sweet/tart when they are red but if you let them get really ripe they taste very sweet and delicious.
Lychee Seedlings
Scientific name: Litchi chinensis
Native to Southeast Asia.
Grows up to 40-60 feet tall.
Takes around 10-15 years to fruit from a seed.
They have red skin with a white ball of fruit on the inside.
They taste sweet with kind of a grape flavor but very delicious.
Red Sugar Apple
Scientific name: Annona Squamosa
Comes from Southern Mexico and South America.
Grows to about 20 feet tall.
Takes around 2-3 years to fruit from seed.
The sugar apple is a fruit that you can just pull it apart with your fingers without using a knife.
It tastes sweet and very delicious and it has white flesh with black seeds inside.
Soursop Seedlings
Scientific name: Annona muricata
Native to the warm and tropical regions of the Americas.
Grows up to about 30 feet tall.
Soursop kills cancer and it is a green with small spikes all over the fruit with white flesh on the inside.
It tastes like a tangy, sour sweet flavor like a mix between a pineapple and strawberry.
Avocado Tree
Scientific name: Persea Americana
Native to central America.
Grows up to 40 feet tall or more.
Takes around 10-15 years to fruit from seed.
It has a creamy taste.
Rosigold Mango Tree
Scientific name: Mangifera Indica
Comes from India and Southern Asia.
Gets up to around 8 feet.
2-3 years to fruit from a grafted plant.
The fruit is very sweet and juicy.
Ground Cherry Plants
Scientific name: Cape Gooseberry
Native to Chile, Peru and South Africa.
Grows up to 1-3 feet tall.
Takes around two months for the plant to flower and produce fruit from seed.
Ground cherries are small orange fruits with a wrapping over the fruit.
They taste sweet with a little tanginess.
Papaya Tree
Scientific name: Carica papaya
Native to Central and South America.
Grows up to 25-30 feet tall.
Takes around 1-2 years to fruit.
Papaya is a red or orange fruit with orange flesh on the inside.
Tastes very sweet only when there are picked fresh and are very ripe.
Papaya trees grow up vertically and get really tall.
Cacao Trees
Scientific name: Theobroma Cacao
It is native to Central and South America.
Grows up to 15-25 feet tall.
Takes around 5 or more years to fruit.
Cacao is a fruit that is yellow or red football shaped fruit and contains cocoa beans inside with a white slimy flesh on the inside around the cocoa beans to make chocolate.
The fruit tastes a little sweet.
Dragon Fruit
Scientific Name: Selenicereus Undatus
Dragon fruit is a fruit that grows on a very large cactus.
The dragon fruit in the was started from seed and about 2 months ago.
There are 3 types of dragon fruit: Pink skin with white flesh, pink skin with red flesh and yellow skin with white flesh.
The yellow dragon fruit is best because is is very sweet.
Dragon fruit grows in Hawaii, Central America and south east Asia. It takes about 3 years for a dragon fruit plant to produce fruit.
Jackfruit
Scientific Name: Artocarous Herterophyllus
Jackfruit is the largest tropical fruit in the world!
It grows in Southeast Asia.
Every part of the Jackfruit can be used. The fruits and seeds are eaten, the leaves can be fed to animals, the trunk and branches can be used for wood products and the roots for medicine.
Jackfruit is my most favorite fruit I have ever had! It is so good and it tastes like a mixture of mango and pineapple.
Orange Tree
Scientific Name is X Sinensis
Oranges originated in Asia and southeast China.
Standard size orange trees can grow up to 18 to 22 feet tall.
There are over 600 varieties of oranges.
Starfruit
Scientific name: Carambola.
Starfruit is a fruit that is from Indonesia and the Philippines and the fruit is shaped like a Star.
Starfruit has a smooth and slightly waxy skin.
It tastes like a fruity apple/pear and grape mixed and it’s really juicy and a little bit crunchy.
Grand Nain Banana and Dwarf Cavendish Banana
Scientific Name: Musa Acuminata
They grow in South America, Latin America, Africa and India
The height depends on the variety, Dwarf Cavendish gets up to 8-10 feet tall.
They take around 1-2 years to fruit.
Bananas are not trees they are herbs and they grow like grass and they always send up shoots or pups next to the stem.
You have to chop down the mother banana plant after you harvest fruits, this feeds the suckers next to the stem and allows them to grow healthier.
Grand Nain Banana
Dwarf Cavendish Banana
Coconut Palms
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera
Coconut palms come from almost any tropical environment on earth
Grows up to 80-100 feet tall
Takes around 6-10 years to grow coconuts
Coconuts are brown or green, the green coconut are used for drinking the water inside and their very delicious and brown coconuts are sometimes used for eating the meat
Ice Cream Banana
Scientific name: Blue java banana
Native to Northern Australia, Maui and Hawaii USA
They can grow up to 15-20 feet tall
Blue java bananas are a rare type of banana, they have a light blue skin and fruit taste very sweet and it tastes similar to vanilla ice cream
Dwarf Kokopo Banana
Scientific name: Musa acuminate
Native to Papua New Guinea
Grows up to 6 to 8 feet tall
It starts fruiting at 5-6′ tall and it is suitable for growing in containers
It is a short cycle fruiting banana which means if you plant it in the spring you will get fruit in the summer
Dwarf Brazilian Banana
Scientific name: Musa Dwarf Brazilian
Native to Brazil and South America
Grows up to 9-11 feet tall
They produce short and plump fruits in about 2 years or less
Red African Peach
Scientific name: Nauclea latifolia
Native to tropical Africa
They can grow up to 32 feet tall
From the Rubiacaea family
They have a deep red flesh on the inside
They taste like a mix between a strawberry and an apple
The flowers can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable
Mamey Sapote
Scientific name: Pouteria Sapote
Native to Central and South America
They can grow up to 40 feet tall
The fruit has a deep orange flesh with a large seed in the middle
The fruit taste like mixture of sweet potato, pumpkin, honey and almond
Mallika Mango
Scientific name: Mangifera Indica
Native to India
They can grow up to 10-12 feet tall
The fruit taste very sweet, silky, soft and very good
The fruit has a canary yellow skin
Star Cherry
Scientific name: Pitangatuba
Native to Brazil
They can grow up to 9 feet tall but they usually stay around 4-5 feet tall
They produce small bright yellow fruits that are ribbed and each have a single seed inside
The fruit taste like a mango mixed with an apricot or passion fruit flavor
Perrieri Baobab
Scientific name: Adansonia Perrieri
Native to northern Madagascar
They can grow up to 16 or 98 feet tall
They produce egg shaped fruits that have a dry flesh with seeds inside
Grimal Jaboticaba
Scientific name: Plinia Cauliflora
Native to Brazil
They can grow up to 30 to 40 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide
They produce small black fruits all over its trunk and branches and they fruits taste similar to a grape
Yellow Passion Fruit
Scientific name: Passiflora flavicarpa
Native to the Brazil, Peru, Paraguay and northern Argentina
They can grow up to 35 to 40 feet long
The Yellow passion fruit has a round egg shaped fruit and had a thick yellow skin and they have crunchy seeds inside with a sweet yellow pulp around the seeds
They taste like a sweet flavor with acidic and tropical with mild floral notes to it
