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Citrus volkameriana (C. medica × C. reticulata ) Like the Rangpur lime and rough lemon, it is a hybrid of a mandarin orange (C. reticulata) and a citron (C. medica), with the citron being the pollen parent and the mandarin being the seed parent. The fruit is moderately large (around the size of an orange), seedy, round and slightly elongated ...
Burning the tree may cause ocular injuries if the smoke reaches the eyes. [12] Contact with its milky sap (latex) produces bullous dermatitis, acute keratoconjunctivitis and possibly large corneal epithelial defects. [13] Although the fruit is potentially fatal if eaten, no such occurrences have been reported in the modern literature. [14]
It is a large tree, growing to 25–40 m tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter, often buttressed at the base, with pale grey bark. The trees have milky to watery latex. [11] The leaves are elliptic to obovate, 7–19 cm long and 3–6 cm broad. [12] The African tree bears larger fruit than Asian and Polynesian populations.
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
Date palm (3 C, 6 P) M. Mangoes (3 C, 10 P) P. ... Pages in category "Tropical fruit" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 212 total.
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The fruit are woody, cup-shaped, barrel-shaped, or almost spherical capsules, often arranged in clusters along the stems. The seeds are sometimes retained in the fruit for many years, only opening when the plant, or part of it, dies or is heated in a bushfire. In tropical areas, seeds are released annually in the wet season. [2]: 25–26
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