Delicious Fruit - Persimmon

A persimmon is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros in the ebony wood family (Ebenaceae). The word Diospyros means "the fire of Zeus" in ancient Greek. As a tree, it is a perennial plant. The word persimmon is derived from putchamin, pasiminan, or pessamin, from Powhatan, an Algonquian language of the eastern United States, meaning "a dry fruit". Persimmons are generally light yellow-orange to dark red-orange in color, and depending on the species, vary in size from 1.5 to 9 cm (0.5 to 4 in) in diameter, and may be spherical, acorn-, or pumpkin-shaped. The calyx often remains attached to the fruit after harvesting, but becomes easier to remove as it ripens. They are high in glucose, with a balanced protein profile, and possess various medicinal and chemical uses.

Like the tomato, it is not considered a "common berry", but is in fact a "true berry" by definition.

Delicious Fruit - Guava

Guavas are plants in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) genus Psidium (meaning "pomegranate" in Latin), which contains about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees. They are native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Guavas are now cultivated and naturalized throughout the tropics and subtropics in Southeast Asia, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Florida and Africa.

In Hawaii, guava is eaten with soy sauce and vinegar. Occasionally, a pinch of sugar and black pepper are added to the mixture. The fruit is cut up and dipped into the sauce.

In Pakistan and India, guava is often eaten raw, typically cut into quarters with a pinch of salt and pepper and sometimes cayenne powder/masala. Street vendors often sell guava fruit for a few rupees each.

In the Philippines, ripe guava is used in cooking sinigang.

The fruit is also often prepared as a dessert, in fruit salads. In Asia, fresh guava slices are often dipped in preserved prune powder or salt. In India it is often sprinkled with red rock salt, which is very tart.

Because of its high level of pectin, guavas are extensively used to make candies, preserves, jellies, jams, marmalades (Brazilian goiabada), and also for juices and aguas frescas.

Guava juice is very popular in Hawaii, Cuba, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt, Mexico and South Africa.

"Red" guavas can be used as the base of salted products such as sauces, substituting for tomatoes, especially for those sensitive to the latter's acidity. In Asia, a drink is made from an infusion of guava fruits and leaves. In Brazil, the infusion made with guava tree leaves (chá-de-goiabeira, i.e. "tea" of guava tree leaves) is considered medicinal.

  

Delicious Fruit - Lychee

The lychee (Litchi chinensis, and also known as the leechi, litchi, laichi, lichu, lizhi) is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to southern China and Southeast Asia, and now cultivated in many parts of the world. The fresh fruit has a "delicate, whitish pulp" with a "perfume" flavor. Since this perfumy flavor is lost in canning, the fruit is usually eaten fresh.

An evergreen tree reaching 10–28 meters tall, the lychee bears fleshy fruits that are up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long and 4 cm (1.6 in) wide. The outside of the fruit is covered by a pink-red, roughly-textured rind that is inedible but easily removed to expose a layer of sweet, translucent white flesh. Lychees are eaten in many different dessert dishes, and are especially popular in China, throughout Southeast Asia, along with South Asia and India.

The lychee is cultivated in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Bangladesh and northern India (in particular Bihar, which accounts for 75% of total Indian production). South Africa and the United States (Hawaii and Florida) also have commercial lychee production.

The lychee has a history of cultivation going back as far as 2000 BC according to records in China. Cultivation began in the area of southern China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Wild trees still grow in parts of southern China and on Hainan Island. There are many stories of the fruit's use as a delicacy in the Chinese Imperial Court. It was first described and introduced to the west in 1782.

Delicious Fruit - Kiwifruit

The kiwifruit, often shortened to kiwi in many parts of the world, is the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia.

The most common cultivars of kiwifruit are oval, about the size of a large hen's egg (5–8 cm / 2–3 in long and 4.5–5.5 cm / 1¾–2 in diameter). It has a fibrous, dull brown-green skin and bright green or golden flesh with rows of tiny, black, edible seeds. The fruit has a soft texture and a sweet but unique flavor, and today is a commercial crop in several countries, such as Italy, New Zealand, Chile, Greece and France.

Delicious Fruit - Aren

 

Aren or sugar palm (Arenga pinnata, Arecaceae tribe) is the most important after the coconut palm (palm) because it is a versatile plant. This plant is known by various names such as lake, Hanau, peluluk, biluluk, mourning, persuaded or fibers (various local names in Sumatra and the Malay peninsula); kawung, taren (Sd.); Akol, Akel, akere, inru, indu (language -languages ​​in Sulawesi), mocha, Moke, tuwa, tuwak (at Nusa Tenggara), and others.

The Dutch know him as arenpalm or zuikerpalm and the Germans call it zuckerpalme. In English or Gomuti palm sugar palm.

Aren is a plant that is protected by law.

Aren tree is big and tall, can reach 25 m. To 65 cm in diameter, substantially solid rod and at the top is covered with black fibers known as fibers, injuk, persuaded or bump. Palm fiber is actually part of the midrib of leaves surrounding the stem.

The leaves are pinnate compound, such as palm leaves, up to 5 m long with petiole to 1.5 m. Children like ribbon undulating leaves, up to 7 x 145 cm, dark green above and whitish because a layer of wax on the bottom side.

Monoecious, separate male flowers than female flowers in different cob that appears in the armpit leaves; cob length up to 2.5 m. Fruit Buni round bullet shape, with a diameter of about 4 cm, three bears and three seed, arranged in a chain-like strands. Each bunch has 10 stems or more, and each stalk has about 50 grains of the fruit is green to yellowish brown. The fruit is not edible because its sap is very itchy directly.

Delicious Fruit - Duku

Duku is the common name of a type of fruit Meliaceae tribal members. Plants originating from Southeast Asia west is known also by other names such as olive, kokosan, pisitan, celoring and others with various variations. The names of these diverse but also indicates a variety of cultivars as reflected in the form of fruit and trees are different.

Duku is the identity of plants for the South Sumatra Province.

A medium-sized tree, with a height of 30 m and gemang to 75 cm. Usually grooved rod-grooves in the irregular, with a buttress root circumference (buttresses) are flat protruding above the ground. Pepagan (bark) mottled gray and dark orange, viscous sap contains a sticky milk-colored (resin).

Odd-pinnate compound leaves, smooth bald or hairy, with 6-9 leaflets arranged alternate, elliptic leaflets (elliptical) to oblong, 9-21 cm × 5-10 cm, glossy on the upper side, such as hides, with the base and tapering and end meluncip (tapered) short-stemmed leaflets 5-12 mm.

Interest lies in a cluster that appears on the trunk or branch of a large, hanging, alone or in bunches of 2-5 or more files, often branched at base, 10-30 cm in length, hairless. The flowers are small, seated or short-stemmed, solitary, androgynous. Petal-shaped bowls bercuping-5, fleshy, greenish yellow. Crown round eggs, erect, fleshy, 2-3 mm × 4-5 mm, white to pale yellow. Stamens one file, the jar up to 2 mm, the heads of cider in a loop. Stigma thick and short.

Buni fruit is elliptic, rounded or elongated round, 2-4 (-7) cm × 1.5 to 5 cm, with yellowish hairs and leaf petals that do not fall out. Skin (walls) of fruit thin to thick (approximately 6 mm). Seeds 1-3, compressed, green, bitter taste; seeds encased by a coated seed (arilus) a clear white and thick, juicy, sweet to sour. cultivar-superior cultivars have little or no seeds developed (rudimentary) , but arilusnya grow well and thick, sweet.

Propagation duku were performed using seeds resulted in a slow plant to produce fruit. The new plants flowering at age 10 to 15 years. Germination of this plant has poliembrioni behavior (one seed produced many embryos or seedlings): one fertilized embryo, and the remaining embryos apomiktik. Apomiktik embryo develops from the mother plant tissue so that the offspring has characteristics similar to its parent. Seeds are recalcitrant, storing more than seven days will cause rapid deterioration germination.

Vegetative propagation is done by transplanting shoots and feed.

Delicious Fruit - Blueberry

Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium (a genus which also includes cranberries and bilberries) with indigo colored berries and are perennial. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are native to North America (commercially cultivated highbush blueberries were not introduced into Europe until the 1930s).

They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in size from 10 centimeters (3.9 in) to 4 meters (160 in) tall. In commercial blueberry production, smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), and the larger species are known as "highbush blueberries".

The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.1 in) long and 0.5–3.5 cm (0.20–1.4 in) broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish. The fruit is a berry 5–16 millimeters (0.20–0.63 in) diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally dark blue when ripe. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit in the middle of the growing season: fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude, so the height of the crop can vary from May to August depending upon these conditions.

 

 

Delicious Fruit - Carambola (Starfruit)

  

Carambola, also known as starfruit, is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The fruit is a popular food throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific and parts of East Asia. The tree is also cultivated throughout non-indigenous tropical areas, such as in Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Jamaica, Trinidad, Ecuador, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Brazil, and, in the United States, in south Florida and Hawaii.[1]

The fruit has ridges running down its sides (usually five); in cross-section, it resembles a star, hence its name. The number of ridges can vary from three to six.

The carambola has been cultivated in parts of Asia for hundreds of years. Scientists believe that it may have originated in Sri Lanka or Moluccas, Indonesia.

Due to concerns over pests and pathogens, however, whole starfruits cannot yet be imported to the US from Malaysia under current Food and Drug Administration regulations. In the United States, starfruits are grown in tropical and semitropical areas, including Florida, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii.