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There are many fruits that typically grow in warm tropical climates or equatorial areas.

Tropical fruits

Varieties of tropical fruit include:

• Acerola (West Indian Cherry or Barbados Cherry)
• Ackee
• Banana
• Barbadine (granadilla; maracujá-açu in Portuguese)
• Brazil nut
• Breadfruit
• Canistel
• Carambola (star fruit or five fingers)
• Cashew
• Cherimoya
• Caimito (caimite; related to the yellow abiu - egg fruit)
• Cocoa chocolate

• Coconut
• Cupuaçu
• Custard apple
• Durian
• Genipap
• Governor's plum
• Guaraná
• Guava
• Hog plum (taperebá in Portuguese)
• Jackfruit
• Longan
• Lychee
• Macadamia
• Mamey sapote (mammee apple; abricó in Portuguese)
• Mamoncillo
• Mango
• Mangosteen
• Marang
• Orange
• Papaya
• Passion fruit
• Persimmon
• Pewa (peach nut; pupunha in Portuguese)
• Pili nut
• Pineapple
• Plantain
• Pois doux (ice-cream bean; inga-cipó in Portuguese)
• Quenepa
• Pomegranate
• Pommerac (Otaheite apple; Malay apple; jambo in Portuguese)
• Pommecythere (golden apple or June plum; cajamanga or cajarana in Portuguese)
• Rambutan
• Sapodilla (naseberry)
• Soursop (graviola in Portuguese)
• Sugar apple (ata in Portuguese)
• Sweetsop
• Tamarind
• Wax apple (bell apple)
• White sapote

See also

• List of culinary fruits

External links

• Media related to Tropical fruit at Wikimedia Commons