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  2. Solanum quitoense - Wikipedia

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    Solanum quitoense, known as naranjilla [3] (Spanish pronunciation: [naɾaŋˈxiʝa], "little orange") in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama and as lulo ([ˈlulo], from Quechua) in Colombia, is a tropical perennial plant from northwestern South America.

  3. Pouteria caimito - Wikipedia

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    Pouteria caimito, the abiu (Portuguese pronunciation:), is a tropical fruit tree in the family Sapotaceae. [3] It grows in the Amazonian region of South America, and this type of fruit can also be found in the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia. It grows to an average of 10 metres (33 feet) high, with ovoid fruits.

  4. Pouteria lucuma - Wikipedia

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    When eaten raw, the very sweet fruit is bright yellow and has a mealy and dry texture. [2] In Peru, it is more commonly used as a flavor in juice, milk shakes, and especially ice cream. Its unique flavor in such preparations has been described variously as being similar to sweet potato, maple syrup, or butterscotch.

  5. World's Weirdest Exotic Fruits - AOL

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    A sure sign that you've landed somewhere new, exotic fruits intrigue and challenge us, whether by their unfamiliar size, shape, texture, or smell. The stinky durian fruit, for instance, has become ...

  6. Tropical fruit - Wikipedia

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    Tropical fruit, including mamey sapote, mango, orange, papaya, pineapple, and sapodilla. There are many fruits that typically grow in warm tropical climates or ...

  7. Tamarillo - Wikipedia

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    The tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) is a tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family). It bears the tamarillo, an egg-shaped edible fruit. [2] It is also known as the tree tomato, [3] tomate de árbol, tomate andino, tomate serrano, blood fruit, poor man's tomato, tomate de yuca, tomate de españa, sachatomate, berenjena, chilto and tamamoro in South America ...

  8. Inga edulis - Wikipedia

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    Inga edulis, known as ice-cream bean, ice-cream-bean, joaquiniquil, cuaniquil (both from Nahuatl: cuahuxinicuile combining cuahuitl "tree"; icxitl "feet" and necuilli "crooked" [2]) guama or guaba, is a fruit native to South America. It is in the mimosoid tribe of the legume family Fabaceae. [3]

  9. Alibertia patinoi - Wikipedia

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    Alibertia patinoi, commonly known as borojó, is a small (2-5m), dioecious tropical rainforest tree, one of the few edible fruit bearing species in the Rubiaceae family. . Borojó, native to the world's wettest lowlands (the Chocó–Darién moist forests ecoregion), grows in the Chocó Department of northwestern Colombia and in the Esmeraldas Province of northwestern Ec