tropical fruit
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 025TreesAvocado: The Fatty Fruit Built for Animals That Vanished
A rich, oily fruit with a giant seed adapted to extinct megafauna, a strange split-timed flowering, a thirst that has made it controversial, and one clone behind most of the crop.
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№ 063TreesCarambola: The Star Fruit With a Hidden Danger
A pretty tropical fruit that slices into perfect stars — and carries a neurotoxin that is harmless to most people but can poison, even kill, anyone with kidney disease.
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№ 142TreesDurian and Mangosteen: The King and Queen of Tropical Fruit
The notorious spike-covered fruit that smells of everything and tastes sublime, and its supposed cooling counterpart — two icons of Southeast Asian forest and orchard.
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№ 280TreesMango: The King of Tropical Fruit and a Tree of a Thousand Kinds
The most important fruit of the tropics after banana — a huge long-lived evergreen with thousands of named varieties, a poison-ivy cousin, and a deep cultural place.
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№ 341TreesPapaya: The Giant Herb That a Virus Almost Destroyed
A fast, soft, tree-sized herb bearing melon-like fruit and a meat-digesting enzyme — whose Hawaiian industry was wiped out by a virus and then saved by one of the first genetically engineered crops.
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№ 397TreesRose Apple and Jambolan: The Fragrant Fruits of the Clove Family
Tropical Syzygium trees — one bearing crisp fruit that tastes of rose perfume, one the purple 'java plum' that stains the tongue — close cousins of the clove, and troublesome invaders abroad.
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№ 411TreesSapotes: The Chewing-Gum Tree and Its Chocolate-Pudding Cousins
A confusing group of unrelated tropical fruits sharing one name — including the sapodilla that gave the world chewing gum, and the black sapote that tastes of chocolate mousse.
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