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Mangosteen

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A tropical fruit with sweet juicy white segments of flesh inside a thick reddish-brown rind.

Regarded as the 'king of tropical fruit'. The durian, native to Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, has been known to the Western world for about 600 years. Described as tasting like heaven and stinking ...

Sugarcane

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A perennial tropical grass with tall stout jointed stems from which sugar is extracted.

Otaheite gooseberry

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It is one of the trees with edible small yellow berries fruit in the Phyllanthaceae family. Despite its name, the plant does not resemble the gooseberry, except for the acidity of its fruits. While ...

Wild medlar

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African Medlar (Vangueria infausta) is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. This shrub or small tree occurs in abundance in woodlands, scrub, valleys, or sandy dunes throughout much of South ...

Tamarind

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The tamarind, a slow-growing, long-lived, massive tree reaches, under favourable conditions, a height of 80 or even 100 ft (24-30 m), and may attain a spread of 40 ft (12 m) and a trunk circumference ...

Seagrape

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Seagrape (Coccoloba uvifera) is a sprawling evergreen shrub or small tree that reaches a maximum height of 8 m. In late summer it bears green fruit, about 2 cm diameter, in large grape-like ...