subtropical fruit
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№ 159TreesFeijoa: The Pineapple Guava With Edible Petals
A tough, hardy subtropical myrtle whose flowers you eat as well as its fruit, that tells you it's ripe by dropping to the ground, and that shrugs off frost most of its relatives can't.
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№ 273TreesLoquat: The Tree That Flowers in Winter and Fruits in Spring
A handsome subtropical evergreen that runs its whole cycle backwards — fragrant flowers in autumn and winter, ripe fruit before summer — feeding bees when nothing else does.
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№ 274TreesLychee and Longan: Jewel-Fruited Trees of the Soapberry Family
Subtropical evergreens bearing translucent aril fruit, kin to the maples, that flower only after a cool dry winter — and one of which carries a genuine poisoning risk.
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№ 481TreesTamarillo: The Tree Tomato That Got a New Name to Sell
A fast subtropical relative of the tomato that fruits in its second year on a soft little tree — renamed by marketers from 'tree tomato' to make it sound exotic.
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