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Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.English common names include cloudberry, [2] Nordic berry, bakeapple (in Newfoundland and Labrador), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska – not to be confused with salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis), [3] and averin or evron (in Scotland).
Annona reticulata is a small deciduous or semi-evergreen tree in the plant family Annonaceae. [5] It is best known for its fruit, called custard apple, [2] a common name shared with fruits of several other species in the same genus: A. cherimola [6] and A. squamosa. [7]
Ripe cherimoya fruits Split cherimoya fruit The edible cherimoya fruit is a large, green, conical [ 12 ] or heart-shaped compound fruit, [ 9 ] 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) long, [ 9 ] with diameters of 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in), [ 11 ] and skin that gives the appearance of having overlapping scales or knobby warts .
Malus sikkimensis. The Maloideae C.Weber was the apple subfamily, a grouping used by some taxonomists within the rose family, Rosaceae.Recent molecular phylogenetic evidence [1] has shown that the traditional Spiraeoideae and Amygdaloideae form part of the same clade as the traditional Maloideae, and the correct name for this group is Amygdaloideae.
A jaboticaba [3] (/d͡ʒæbɒtɪˈkɑːbə/), spelled jabuticaba in Portuguese, is a round, edible fruit produced by a jaboticaba tree (Plinia cauliflora), also known as Brazilian grapetree. The purplish-black, white-pulped fruit grows directly on the trunk of the tree, making it an example of ' cauliflory '.
Myrica esculenta is a evergreen tree of medium height, about 6 to 8 m (20 to 26 ft) tall. The yellow bark is soft and brittle. Its leaves are conjoint, 30–60 cm (1–2 ft) feet long, and has leaflets in pairs of 6 to 9 and it has a width of 19 mm (0.75 in).
The fruit is a red berry, 7–20 mm (1 ⁄ 4 – 13 ⁄ 16 in) diameter, spherical in shape with a rough surface. [11] It matures in about 12 months, in autumn, at the same time as the next flowering. It is edible; the fruit is sweet when reddish. Seeds are small, brown and angular [11] and are often dispersed by frugivorous birds. [12]
Outsiders began learning this fruit since at least the 18th century, when a European explorer, the Chevalier des Marchais, provided an account of its use there. Des Marchais, who was searching West Africa for many different fruits in a 1725 excursion, noticed that local people picked the berry from shrubs and chewed it before meals.