Sth American Fruits - Abiu, Ambarella, Babaco

Sth American Fruits Misc

Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet

Heavy cropper of cherry like fruit. When fully ripe the fruit is juicy and aromatic with its acid content giving it a sweet acid apple-like flavour. Fruits are extreemly high in vitamin c. Attactive pink flowers make this a very ornamental shrub.

Cape Gooseberry

This is a low lying bush with bright orange berries enclosed in a pale brown parchment-like case. The berry is the size of a cherry tomato, is very aromatic and full of tiny hard seeds. They are delicious eaten straight or made into gooseberry Jam.

Brazilian Cherry

A highly ornamental shrub with spreading branches and aromatic foliage. The young bronze foliage turns a glossy deep green when mature. The delicate white flowers are followed within 3 weeks by maroon ribbed fruit.

Achiote - Bixa

Source of annato. Small tree produces spiky fruit containing dark red seeds that are used as a commercial dye. Tree is extremely beautiful in full flowering and fruiting. Can be grown in a container, prefers a frost free climate

Pepino - Kendall Gold

Small bush rarely above 1 m tall with yellow fruit stripped purple up to 10cm. Flavour is like a juicy rock melon. Only pick fragrant, slightly soft fruit which are ripe.

Tamarillo - Red

Also known as the Tree Tomato is a very quick growing small tree that bears heavy crops of red sub-acid succulent fruit. Prefers a sheltered spot with well drained soil

Madrono

This attractive medium-sized tree has a very unusual fruit. The fruit has a pleasant subacid aromatic flavour are produced in summer. The fragrant male and female flowers are borne on separate trees. Slow growing and frost tender when young. Excellent potted patio plant.

Monstera

Often called the Fruit Salad plant as the ripened fruit has a pineapple-banana odour and fruit salad taste. The mature fruit has a yellow-green, violet-spotted rind of hexagonal plates covering a creamy-white, soft pulp.

Naranjilla

This small orange fruit can be used to make a delicious juice considered a delicacy in South American parts. The tree is very attractive with large leaves that have a purple velvet effect, although some can have thorns on the leaves and stems.

Casana

Closely related to the tamarillo, it has large, furry leaves and produces heavy crops of mild-flavored fruits within 2 years. The fruits are oval and golden yellow when ripe. They are sweet, juicy, and said to be rather like a blend of peach and tomato in flavor. Native to the rain forests in the highlands of Ecuador.

Green Sapote

A close relative of the Mamey Sapote but more compact and cold hardier. The green fruit turns to gold when ripe and has a superior sweeter flavour to the Mamey. Seeds can be roasted and eaten. Good drainage is essential.

Peanut Butter Tree

A very attractive and hardy shrub bearing small orange/red fruit with a pasty texture and rich sweet flavour when fully ripe. Fruit ripens in late summer. Will tolerate light frosts.

Ambarella

A rapid growing tree with slightly ridged amber coloured fruit the size of a large plum. The ripe fruit can be eaten fresh or used to make delicious and refreshing juices. Young steamed leaves are eaten as a vegetable.

Sapodilla - Seedling

Fruit look like potatoes but have light brown soft very sweet flesh. Flesh is sometimes gritty and contains black seeds. Ripe fruit taste like sweetened cooked pear. Very hardy Subtropical fruit tree.

Mamey Sapote

Underneath the Mamey's leathery coarse brown skin is a brilliantly coloured, sweet and creamy flesh. The salmon-pink flesh has an exotic flavour similar to sweet pumpkin pie with spice. Unripe fruits can be cooked as a vegetable.

Acai Palm

An amazing species from the Amazon basin where it occurs in fertile swampy areas of the forest. Acai is a very beautiful and productive palm, the fruits are used in drinks, ice creams, sorbets, smoothies and other tasty delights. Seed selected from a Dwarf commercial form called BRS-Para that was developed by the Brazilian government.