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Aiphanes aculeata |
corozo |
AM |
Ornamental palm, fruit and seed are edible. |
most |
$50 |
|
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Alibertia edulis |
purui |
AM |
Small dioecious tree, borojo-like fruit. |
10 - 4 |
$30 |
|
|
Alibertia patinoi |
borojo |
CH |
Legendary Colombian fruit prized for its tonic, cure-all, and aphrodisiac qualities. Dioecious. |
most |
$20 |
|
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Annona muricata |
guanabana |
AM |
Seed from a variety of local types. |
most |
$20 |
|
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Annona montana |
Bolivian cherimoya |
AM |
15cm.fruits, nicely aromatic like guanabana but fibrous |
most |
$30 |
|
|
Antidesma bunis |
bignay |
AS |
Dioecious tree, producing bunches of subacid, very purple fruits. |
6 - 8 |
$30
|
|
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Artocarpus odoratissimus |
marang |
AS |
From the Philippines, very good. |
4 - 6 |
$40 |
|
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Artocarpus x hybrid |
champejak |
AS |
A firm fleshed type. |
9 - 1 |
$2 each
|
|
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Artocarpus integer |
champedek |
AS |
Similar to jakfruit with stronger odor and flavor |
4-10 |
$2 each |
|
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Averrhoa
bilimbi |
bilimbi |
AS |
Sour fruits
are usually used for pickling. |
most |
$20 |
|
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Baccaurea
dulcis |
menteng
besar |
AS |
Dioecious. Tasty
4 cm. subacid fruits. |
3 - 8 |
$30 |
|
|
Baccaurea macrocarpa |
tampoi |
AS |
Like B. dulcis, fruits slightly larger and sweeter. |
4 - 6 |
$40 |
|
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Baccaurea macrophylla |
tampoi Lang Khaei |
AS |
sweet fruits are much like B. macrocarpa but smaller. |
3 - 7 |
$40 |
|
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Baccaurea motleyana |
rambai |
AS |
dioecious tree, beautiful in fruit, small, sweet, popular fruits. |
3 - 6 |
$40 |
|
|
Baccaurea pyridiformis |
tampoi |
AS |
fruits like Baccaurea macrocarpa but with yellow pulp |
2 - 5 |
$50 |
|
|
Bactris setulosa |
chontilla |
RG |
Clumping palm, the scant pulp surrounding the seed is made into a drink. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Bellucia grossularioides |
coronilla |
AM |
small-medium tree, pretty, flowers and fruits |
most |
$5 |
|
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Bixa orellana |
dwarf annatto |
AE |
Begins to produce when 50 cm. tall. |
most |
$20 |
|
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Canarium odontophyllum |
dabai |
AS |
Edible nut and pulp |
2 - 5 |
$1 each |
seeds |
|
Canarium ovatum |
pili |
AS |
Edible nut and pulp |
most |
$3 each |
seeds |
|
Caryodendron sp. |
dwarf inchi |
AE |
Nuts identical to C. orinocense but smaller, tree small, precocious, monoecious. |
4 - 5 |
$80 |
|
|
Casearea obovalis |
puma muyo |
AE |
Attractive bush, 3 cm. yellow fruits, scant sweet pulp surrounding the seeds. |
irreg. |
$30
|
|
|
Casearea sp |
- |
RG |
Small tree, green fruits almost identical to those of C. obovata |
most |
$30 |
|
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Clavija spp. |
mongon |
CH |
Small unbranched tree, large 5 cm. edible fruits. |
most |
$50 |
|
|
Cola nitida |
kola |
AF |
The caffein-rich seeds are used for cola drinks. |
2 - 5 |
$5 each |
seeds |
|
Costus guanaiensis var. macrostrobilus |
canahuate |
CH |
Large 10 cm. flowers eaten in salads. Sour, aromatic juice
is squeezed from stalks, diluted and sweetened
for juice. Medicinal for kidneys.
|
most |
$5 |
|
|
Crescentia sp. |
watermelon gourd |
CH |
Unlike those of C. cujete, oblong fruits are edible |
most |
$30 |
|
|
Diospyros discolor |
mabolo |
AM |
Looks like a peach |
3 - 6 |
$80 |
|
|
Dialium indum
|
keranji |
AS |
medium tree, tamarind-like fruits. |
most |
$30
|
|
|
Durio kutejensis |
durian pulu |
AS |
selected type "DK3", large fruits, large flowers.
. |
irreg |
$4 each |
seeds
|
|
Elettaria cardamomo |
cardamom |
AS |
Used as a sweet or savory spice, in Arab coffee, chewed
after meals.
|
most |
$20
|
|
|
Eugenia glazioviana |
cabeludo |
AM |
Attractive bush, 3 cm. yellow fruits |
10 - 2 |
$40 |
|
|
Eugenia sp.#2 |
uvalha
|
AM |
6 cm fruits with araza-like aroma and flavor are orange when ripe.
|
most
|
$40 |
|
|
Eugenia stipitata |
araza, INPA types |
AE |
From seed selected at INPA, Manaus for quality and transportability. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Eugenia
uniflora |
Surinam
cherry |
AM |
From a
variety of red and black fruited types. |
9
- 1 |
$40 |
|
|
Eugenia
victoriana |
guayabilla |
CH |
Small tree,
beautiful shiny orange 6 cm. fruits, acidic and
highly aromatic, excellent flavor for juice
and jam. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Flacourtia jangomas |
paniala |
AS |
sweet fruited type |
3-6 |
$20 |
|
|
Garcinia cambogia |
Goraka |
AS |
Pretty fruits, scant sweet aril, dried rind used as condiment. |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Garcinia forbesii
|
- |
AS |
small tree, beautiful sweet red plum-like fruits, sour peel also eaten. |
3-5 |
$40 |
|
|
Garcinia hombroniana |
beach mangosteen |
AS |
pretty, tart fruits, good flavor. dioecious. |
2-5 |
$80 |
|
|
Garcinia humilis |
Achachairu |
AM |
Small tree, sweet 6 cm fruits |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Garcinia intermedia |
cherry mangosteen |
AM |
small tree, 2 cm sweet fruits |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Garcinia
magnifolia |
madrono |
CH |
Not the Amazonian G. macrophylla, this precocious Chocó plant has 40 cm. leaves, nice subacid 5 cm.
fruits. |
most |
$1 each |
|
|
Garcinia macrophylla |
pungara |
AE
|
fruits 6-8 cm x 5 cm with nipple at apex, relatively hard rind, sweet.
|
most
|
$1 each |
|
|
Garcinia
mangostana |
mangosteen |
AS |
The queen
of fruits. |
5
- 7 |
$50 |
|
|
Garcinia
prainiana |
cherapu,
button mangosteen |
AS |
6
cm. orange subacid fruit with nice flavor. Dioecious |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Garcinia sp.
|
madrono de monte |
CH
|
large 10 cm x 8 cm subacid fruits |
most
|
$2 each |
|
|
Garcinia sp.
|
madroño ‘lindero’ |
AM
|
8 x 6 cm fruits, unusually large edible proportion. subacid. |
most
|
$2 each |
|
|
Garcinia sp.
|
medroño |
CH
|
8 x 4 cm fruits, sweet pulp. dioecious |
most
|
$1 each |
|
|
Herrania
spp. |
cacao de
monte |
RG,AE |
4 beautiful ecuadorian spp |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Inga edulis |
guaba |
AE |
ice cream bean |
7-9
|
$80 |
|
|
Juglans
neotropica |
tocte |
CH,AE |
Black
walnut, used as food and dye. |
12-2 |
$5
each |
seeds |
|
Jacaratia digitata |
tambor |
AE |
Large tree, papaya-like fruit |
most |
$20
|
|
|
Lacmellea oblongata |
chicle muyo |
AE
|
dwarf tree with larger fruit than other lacmelleas.
sweet milky sap and pulp eaten or made into chewing
gum
|
most |
$30 |
|
|
Lansium
domesticum |
duku-langsat |
AS |
medium tree, popular Asian fruit. |
4
- 8 |
$40 |
|
|
Litsea
garciae |
engkala |
AS |
Avocado-
like fruit. |
2 - 3 |
$80 |
|
|
Lycopersicon esculentum |
tomato |
RG |
A native tomato with tiny 1 cm fruits. |
most |
$20 |
|
|
Matisia alata |
sapote |
CH |
sweet fiberless pulp. |
most
|
$2 each |
|
|
Matisia soegengii |
SL sapote |
CH |
cauliflorous tree with flowers and fruits down to ground level. 8cm fruits with sweet scant fibrous pulp. |
most
|
$1 each |
|
|
Matisia
giacomettoi |
sapote
del monte |
RG |
6-8
cm yellow fruits similar to Q. cordata |
most |
$1 each |
|
|
Mouriri
sp |
muriri |
AE |
Small cauliflorous tree, ornamental, very sweet pulp surrounds the seeds |
2-5
|
$40 |
|
|
Nephelium
lappaceum |
rambutan |
AS |
From a
variety of good freestone types of different origins. |
3
- 7 |
$40 |
|
|
Nephelium mutabile |
pulasan |
AS |
various types |
2
- 5 |
$80 |
|
|
Pachira aquatica |
guinea chestnut
|
CH
|
nuts edible raw or roasted.
|
2-7
|
$80 |
|
|
Pachira insignis |
sachapatas |
AE |
Seeds eaten raw, roasted, fried |
irreg. |
$1 each |
|
|
Pachira patinoi |
piscandi |
CH |
Seeds eaten after discarding the embryo. Large seeds eaten. |
irreg. |
$2 each
|
seeds |
|
Passiflora
macrophylla |
granadilla de
monte |
RG |
An unusual bush passionfruit with huge 80 cm. leaves. |
irreg. |
$80 |
|
|
Passiflora spp. |
- |
- |
check
either box to receive information about local spp.
available. |
- |
|
|
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Patinoa almirajo |
almirajó |
CH |
Large fruit, sweet canistel-like pulp. Commercial fruit in the Colombian Chocó. |
2 - 5 |
$4 each |
|
|
Paullinia yoco |
yoco |
AE |
Stimulant vine like guaran‡, 2% caffeine. |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Pentagonia
grandiflora |
pentagonia |
RG |
Small
upright tree. The large leaves and 6-8 cm. sweet edible
fruits are clustered near the ends of the branches |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Pereskia
aculeata |
barbados
gooseberry |
AM |
Small
leafy cactus vine, small tart fruits |
most |
$20 |
|
|
Plinia
cauliflora |
jaboticaba |
AM |
Sweet grape-like
fruits borne on trunk and branches. |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Plinia inflata |
mulchi |
AE |
Sweet, juicy 6-8 cm fruits |
irreg |
$2 each |
|
|
Plinia inflata "giant" |
giant mulchi |
AE |
Sweet, juicy 8-10 cm
fruits |
irreg |
$4 each |
|
|
Plinia salticola |
dwarf mulchi |
AE |
small bush, 3 cm fruits whose scant pulp is sweet and spicy |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Plinia x |
red jaboticaba |
AM |
Precocious, 2-3 years from seed. |
8-12 |
$50 |
|
|
Plukenetia volubilus |
ticazo |
AE |
Precocious vine
producing star-shaped fruits, the roasted seeds
are eaten. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Pourouma
cecropiifolia |
tree grape |
AE |
Large, fast
growing, dioecious tree. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Psidium
angulatum |
guayaba agria |
AM |
8 cm.
acidic fruits are very aromatic, good in juice and
jam. |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Psidium
friedrichsthalianum |
cas guava |
RG |
4 cm.
acidic fruits are very aromatic, good in juice and
jam. |
irreg. |
$10 |
|
|
Psidium
guineense |
guisaro |
AM |
Small sweet
fruits with nice flavor. |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Quararibea
obliquifolia |
sapotillo |
AE |
Handsome
precocious tree, 3 cm. yellow fruits. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Raimondia
sp. |
guanabana
de monte |
RG |
Small tree.
Pretty yellow fruits, 10 x 3 cm., are like an Annona
in structure, flavor somewhat bland. |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Rhodomyrtus
tomentosa |
Ceylon hill
cherry |
AS |
Ornamental bush,
small purple fruits are sweet and good. |
7
- 11 |
$20 |
|
|
Rollinia
deliciosa |
anon |
AM |
From large-fruited,
small stature trees. |
most |
$40 |
|
|
Salacca affinis |
red salak |
AS |
Bright red fruits are more juicy and aromatic than the bali salak, subacid w/ some astrigency, tasty. dioecious. |
most |
$1 each |
|
|
Salacca zalacca #2 |
miri salak |
AS |
Dioecious salak, commercially grown in indonesia. slightly larger, drier, and sweeter than the bali salak.. |
most |
$1 each |
|
|
Salacca zalacca |
salak |
AS |
Monoecious Bali
type. |
most |
$1 each |
|
|
Salacca zalacca |
thornless salak |
AS |
very reduced thorns, fruits like the common bali type |
most |
$2 each |
|
|
Salacca x hybrid |
affinis x wallichiana |
AS |
fruit characteristics midway between affinis and sour type wallichiana |
most |
$2 each |
|
|
Salacca wallichiana |
thai salak |
AS |
Large dioecious palm, fruits tart, juicy and aromatic. |
most |
$1 each |
|
|
Sandoricum
koetjape |
santol |
AS |
Fruits
to 15 cm, subacid to sweet |
3
- 6 |
$80 |
|
|
Selenicereus megalanthus |
pitahaya |
AM |
climbing cactus with yellow fruit |
most |
$20 |
|
|
Sicana
odorifera |
giron |
AM |
From Colombian
and local types. |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Solanum
caripense |
tzimbalo |
RG |
Tomato-like plant,
the 1-1/2 cm. sweet fruits are green with purple
stripes. |
most |
$5 |
|
|
Solanum
hirsutissimum |
naranjilla |
AE |
5 cm.
acid to subacid fruits, nice flavor. |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Solanum
muricatum |
pepino |
AM |
From local
types. |
most |
$10 |
|
|
Solanum pseudolulo |
naranjilla del monte |
RG |
3 cm sweet fruits, orange pulp |
most |
$5 |
|
|
Solanum
sessiliflorum |
cocona |
RG |
Large fruited
local type. |
most |
$5 |
|
|
Solanum stramonifolium |
baquicha |
AE |
Ornamental
bush like small-leaf S. quitoense, 1 - 2 cm. sweet
red fruits. |
most |
$5 |
|
|
Synsepalum dulcificum |
miracle fruit |
AF |
It's a miracle. |
8
- 11 |
$40 |
|
|
Synsepalum subcordatum |
munga |
AF |
Medium tree, the abundant beautiful edible red cauliflorous fruits do not have the miracle fruit effect. |
2
- 4 |
$50 |
|
|
Syzygium
polycephalum |
gowak |
- |
Purple
subacid fruit |
2
- 4 |
$30 |
|
|
Tabernaemontana
sananho |
tsicta |
AE |
Ornamental
bush with 4 cm.paired edible fruits. |
most |
$30 |
|
|
Theobroma
angustifolia |
cacao
de monte |
AE |
Non-bitter,
cacao-like seeds. |
irreg. |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma bicolor |
bacao |
CH, AE |
good edible seeds |
5 - 10 |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma
cacao |
cacao |
AE |
Chocolate. |
3 - 10 |
$1 each |
|
|
Theobroma
gileri |
cacao
de monte |
RG |
Edible
pulp. |
3 - 10 |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma glaucum |
cacao
de monte |
AE |
This
one has the showiest flowers and very tasty fruit. |
irreg. |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma
grandiflorum |
cupuassu |
AE |
Edible
pulp and seeds. |
3
- 5 |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma sp. |
san lorenzo theobroma |
CH |
Apparently undescribed, large showy flowers, fruits like cupuassu but sweeter |
3
- 6 |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma speciosum |
cacaui |
AM |
edible pulp |
irreg. |
$2 each |
|
|
Theobroma
subincanum |
cupui |
AE |
Nice
edible pulp. |
3
- 6 |
$2 each |
|
|
Tovomita aff. Longifolia |
Estrellas |
RG |
Fruits dehisce to bright red stars, edible aril. |
most |
$80 |
|
|
Vasconcellea monoica |
col
de monte |
AE |
Bland-tasting
8 cm. papaya-like fruits, leaves eaten cooked. |
most |
$30 |
|