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Fruit A trio of pulasan fruits, one of which has been opened to reveal the sweet edible flesh. Pulasan tree with ripe fruits photographed in Kerala. Nephelium ramboutan-ake, the pulasan, [1] is a tropical fruit in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. [2] It is closely related to the rambutan and sometimes confused with it.
As with other plants producing caffeine, the high concentration of caffeine is a defensive toxin that repels insects from the berry and seeds. [ 4 ] The color of the fruit ranges from brown to red and it contains black seeds that are partly covered by white arils . [ 5 ]
Breynia androgyna, also known as katuk, star gooseberry, or sweet leaf, is a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable. Its multiple upright stems can reach heights of 2.5 meters and bear dark green oval leaves of length 5–6 centimetres .
Malpighia emarginata is a tropical fruit-bearing shrub or small tree in the family Malpighiaceae.. Common names include acerola (from Arabic: الزُّعرُورَة, romanized: az-zuʿrūra "azarole" for a similar looking old-world fruit [4]), Guarani cherry, Barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, [5] and wild crepe myrtle. [6]
The berry itself has a low sugar content [9] and a mildly sweet tang. It contains a glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin. [10] When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing sour foods to taste sweet.
The fruit is a thick-skinned berry and typically measures 3–4 centimetres (1.2–1.6 in) in diameter. The fruit resembles a slip-skin grape. It has a thick, purple, astringent skin that encases a sweet, white or rosy pink gelatinous flesh.
Muntingia calabura is a shrub or tree that grows fast up between 7.5 to 12 m tall with spreading branches. [4] The leaves are alternate, distichous, oblong or lanceolate, 4–15 cm long and 1–6 cm wide, with toothed margin and covered in short hairs.
Thaumatococcus daniellii, also known as miracle fruit or miracle berry, is a plant species from tropical Africa of the Marantaceae (arrowroot & prayer plant) family. It is a large, rhizomatous , flowering herb native to the rainforests of western Africa in Sierra Leone , southeast to Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo .