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Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Its stone-bearing fruits, commonly called quenepa, ‘’’kenèp’’’ or guinep, are edible.
Tequeño is a fried spear of wheat dough stuffed with semi-hard queso blanco (fresh cheese), and is a popular meal or snack in Venezuela. [1] To prepare it, the dough is wrapped around a cheesestick, formed into a breadstick and then fried or sometimes oven-baked.
Passion fruit juice; Malta – Non-alcoholic carbonated malt; Papelón con limón [1] Ponche crema – Served especially during Christmas season; Venezuelan rum [1] Frescolita (strawberry-flavored soda) Chinotto (the counterpart to Sprite or Seven Up) Cocuy [1] – Similar to Tequila. Served at celebrations.
A caryopsis or grain is a type of fruit that closely resembles an achene, but differs in that the pericarp is fused to the thin seed coat in the grain. An utricle is like an achene, but the fruit is bladder-like or inflated. [3] Fruits of sedges are sometimes considered achenes although their one-locule ovary is a compound ovary. Cypsela of Cynara
Binukaw belongs to the genus Garcinia (the mangosteens) of the family Clusiaceae.The first description of the correct name of the species is attributed to the French botanist Jacques Denys Choisy in Description des guttifères de l'Inde (1849) based on the basionym Cambogia binucao from the Spanish friar and botanist Francisco Manuel Blanco in Flora de Filipinas in 1837.
The trees produce fruit after about 3 years of growing. [7] Young fruits are green but turn golden-yellow or yellow (and rarely orangish-red) as they ripen, [11] [9] [10] [12] climatic conditions do not affect their maturation. [9] [7] When ripe, the fruit has a green, juicy pulp, and one large endospermic seed, that has a small embryo and thin ...
The fruit is eaten in Mexico cooked, raw, or canned. It resembles a crabapple , but it has three or sometimes more brown hard stones in the center. It is a main ingredient used in ponche , the traditional Mexican hot fruit punch that is served at Christmas time and on New Year's Eve.
Annona squamosa is a small, well-branched tree or shrub [7] from the family Annonaceae that bears edible fruits called sugar apples or sweetsops. [8] It tolerates a tropical lowland climate better than its relatives Annona reticulata and Annona cherimola [6] (whose fruits often share the same name) [3] helping make it the most widely cultivated of these species. [9]