Dave's Travel Corner - Fruit Pictures, Tropical Fruit

EXOTIC FRUIT

When traveling Dave loves sampling exotic fruit. He has sampled all of the fruits listed below. These links contain info and or photos about each of the listed fruits (mostly tropical fruit). If you see a

, the website sells and ships fruit (certain conditions may apply)

Sometimes you have to travel to find exotic fruit!
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An excellent resource spotlighting over 300 fruits and nuts is Dr. Susanna Lyle's full color book - Fruits & Nuts. Several of our fruit photos appear in this book. To purchase this book, click here

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TROPICAL FRUIT PICTURES

www.davestravel.com/photos/fruit tropical fruit photos taken by Dave

GENERAL INFORMATION

www.blueproduce.com
specializing in the following fruit: Durian, Longan, Lychee, Mangosteen & Rambutan - their customers are among others, grocery and specialty stores

www.crfg.org the ultimate rare fruit site

www.organicfarm.net
Govardhan Gardens, located close by Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) is an eco farm and tropical rare fruit & bamboo nursery. Its goal is to inspire a natural life style, care for the earth and environment, as well as to encourage independent living and thought, grassroots social cooperation, and meaningful, self-sufficiency oriented lifestyles outside the grid of a media/consumer-created culture

www.melissas.com is the largest distributor of specialty produce in the USA

www.fl-ag.com/tropical/growship.htm interested in buying tropical fruit online - visit here!

www.fruitlovers.com/fruittreedescriptions.html description & photos of certain tropical fruits

www.robertishere.com southern Florida fruit stand

www.th4u.com/fruits.htm
information and pictures of exotic tropical fruits in Thailand. Thai fruit markets, fun tours, fruitful vacations and other tourist info

www.tradewindsfruit.com/fruitsscientific.htm
a very extensive list and info about tropical rare fruit - has photos, & categorizes tropical fruit by country.

SPECIFIC FRUIT INFORMATION

Banana
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~banana99
great source of info including additional links to other Banana sites

Dragon Fruit
www.geocities.com/wenjin92014/foto2001/dragon.htm
originally from Central America - grown in Vietnam

Carombolla or Starfruit
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/star_fru/starfrui.html click on photo to see larger photo

Cherimoya

www.calimoya.com order your Cherimoyas here

www.cherimoyas.org
www.cherimoya.com other fruit also listed and available for ordering when in season

Chinese Jujube or Chinese Date
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_MG329
brought to you by the University of Florida - no pictures but a good description

Custard Apple or Noina
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/custard_apple.html

Durian
www.durian.net
www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~durian

been described like eating desert in the sewer! (not that bad!)
www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~durian/lat/index.htm hey! there are even cartoons about Durian!

Jakfruit the world's largest fruit
www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/jakfruit.htm

Guanabana or Soursop

www.tradewindsfruit.com/soursop.htm
www.tropilab.com/soursop.html

Guava
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/guava/guava.html
www.cspinet.org/nah/fantfruit.htm scientifically proven to be the most nutritious of fruits!

Kiwi
www.kiwifruit.org

Longans
www.hulabrothers.com/longan.html the fruit is shipped FRESH! from early October

http://importfood.com/infolongan.html

Lucama (often used in ice creams)
www.tradewindsfruit.com/lucuma.htm
www.tjpmd.com/lucuma.htm

Lychee
www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/lychee.html information only - from the California Rare Fruit Growers
www.lychee.com/lychee.html

www.lycheesonline.com lychee links, recipes, order lychees, a lot of great info!

Mango
www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mango.html

Mangosteen

several local stores in parts of Southern California sell frozen Mangosteens
www.downtownexpress.com/de_26/findingaforbidden.html
a great article on why you cannot purchase fresh Mangosteens in the USA yet however, you can buy them in Canada. Frozen mangosteens however are legal for importation into the USA, but of course some of the flavor and delicacy is highly lost
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/manggis/mg_buah1.gif photo only
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/manggis/manggis.html description
www.mangosteens.com the ultimate site for information about this awesome fruit

www.mangoxan.com order Mangosteen fruit juice online

Monstera

www.alohafriends.com/web%20art/monstera_pods_001_ediable.jpg
www.gaiaguys.net/monstera.htm

Mulberry

www.e2121.com/food_db/viewherb.php3?viewid=176

Pacay or Pacai (Ice Cream Bean or Inga Pods or Guama)

http://books.nap.edu/books/030904264X/html/276.html
the best source of information I have found yet about this long bean like fruit
www.tradewindsfruit.com/ice_cream_bean_pictures.htm photos

Papaya
www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/papaya.html information page only
www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/papaya.jpg photo only

Passion Fruit
www.agroworld.com/passion_fruit.htm

Paw Paw
www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/pawpaw.html great info page here
www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/commercial/fruit/mfruit/pawpaw.html

Rambutan
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/rambutan/rambut2.jpg photo
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/rambutan/rambutan.html description
www.hulabrothers.com/rambutan.html the fruit is shipped FRESH! from early October

Rose Apple
www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/roseapple.html

Sapodilla or Lamood
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/sapodilla.html

Zalacca or Snake Fruit - the skin resembles snakes skin
www.itisnet.com/english/asia/indonesia/gallery/e-abe-market1.htm scroll down to see a photo
www.actahort.org/books/531/531_44.htm
www.bi.go.id/sipuk/lm/eng/salak/marketing_aspect.htm info about the potential for exportation

Zapote or Sapota
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/white_sapote.html
www.smmirror.com/Volume1/issue12/white_sapote.html

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