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The fruit is a globose red-brown capsule about 4 to 5 cm (1.6 to 2.0 in) diameter. It has up to four segments with one seed contained in each. The seeds are about 2 cm (0.79 in) long, brownish-black and with an orange-red sarcotesta. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and southern Ontario, Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit.
The fruit pulp is also often used locally in baked dessert recipes, [31] with pawpaw often substituted in many banana-based recipes. The common pawpaw is of interest in ecological restoration plantings , since this tree grows well in wet soil and has a strong tendency to form well-rooted clonal thickets .
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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 ...
Byrsonima crassifolia is a slow-growing large shrub or tree to 10 metres (33 ft). Sometimes cultivated for its edible fruits, the tree is native and abundant in the wild, sometimes in extensive stands, in open pine forests and grassy savannas, from central Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; it also occurs in Trinidad, Barbados, Curaçao, St. Martin ...
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
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