IN THIS GUIDE
How many types of fruit can you think of ? Fifteen ? Twenty ? At a push button , we wager you ’d sputter to consider of more than forty .
And does your tilt admit dissimilar types of Charles Edward Berry , or are you counting berries as one fruit ?
Then there are the fruits that most people would key out as vegetables – tomatoes being the prime example , but just one of a fistful of sneaky fruits who fit this criterion .
“ In my garden , I raise strawberries , raspberries and gooseberry , ” shares Journalist & Broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh .
“ I have grown a reach of unusual fruit that are not regularly found in the supermarket , ” saysMaster Horticulturist Peter Lickorish .
Delicious in many formats
“ One I arise , Billardiera longiflora , has small , glistening purple yield , which looked appealing , but had a dense , mealy frame that was literally tough to withdraw . I have had some inviolable successes with honeyberry , Lonicera caerulea , which has the tone and appearing of blueberry but does n’t demand acidulent grunge .
“ A yield is the ovary of a plant , existing to control seeds . Sometimes other parts , besides the ovary , are included in the “ yield ” – as with pineapple – and we call these accessory fruit .
“ The principal categories of fruits are pomes , Charles Edward Berry , drupes and hesperidia . Pomes , including apples , often have denser flesh as they are also accessory fruits – they ’re not just formed from the soft ovary .
“ Berries usually hold in multiple seeds from a single ovary . Drupes have a hard stone , so a unmarried seed , like a cherry . As for hesperidia , they ’re section fruits , usually of citrus industrial plant . ”
An A-Z of fruit
Below you ’ll come up 73 different fruits with a little information about each .
That’s one heck of a fruit salad!
There you have it : 72 of Earth ’s legion fruits .
While there are doubtless more fruits than those in our list , the selection above is an expansive cross - section of the most popular in various regions around the world .
References
Delicious in many formats
Pink bananas!
Berry interesting
Not to be mistaken with Chupa-chups, the lollipop
Hopefully people skimming don’t get too confused by all the ‘veggies’
Worth a try
Spiky, smelly, but also tasty.
Stunning
Fingers and caviar, what a treat
Unusual but worth a look
Not very common here in the UK!
Knobbly and seedy lime
Punchy and delicious
AKA alligator strawberry
Known as the queen of fruits
A relative of the pear that looks more like an apple
Pick a pair of the big pawpaw, like Baloo told you
Would probably do quite well in a tomato lookalike contest
Baloo also advises not to pick the prickly pear by paw
Remember this at your next pub quiz
A beautiful fruit.
Such a colourful family
Comfortably eclipses a grapefruit
Similar to lychees
Isn’t it beautiful?
Sour tamarind candies: an eye-opening (and eye-watering) experience
U G L I, you ain’t got no alibi, you ugli
Looks delicious, no?
