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White-flowered gourd

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A common variety of hard-shelled gourd, also called "bottle gourd" and "Calabash gourd." This gourd is used in the West Indies to produce a very popular syrup. Its shell is often used to create bowls ...

Blueberry

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The blue-black berries of this plant are smooth-skinned, round, juicy, and sweet. Look for firm, uniformly sized blueberries that are indigo blue with a silvery frost.

Zante currant

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This fruit of the Zante grape is a tiny, dark raisin. It comes from Corinth Greece and is used primarily in baked foods. The Zante Currant is unrelated to the other fruit called the "currant."

Bramble

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These are the largest of the wild berries, up to 1" long when mature. Look for plump, deep coloured berries without hulls. (If hulls are present, the berries were picked too early and will be tart.) ...

Citron

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A semitropical fruit that resembles a six-to-nine inch long lemon. Because the pulp is very sour, it is unsuitable for eating. The extremely thick peel, however, is candied and used in baking.

Citrus

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A large family of fruits that include grapefruits, lemons, limes, oranges, shaddocks, tangerines, and kumquats.

Coconut

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Fruit of the coconut tree. It has a hard outer husk enclosing a large nut containing a white, edible, jelly-like substance called the "endosperm."

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