There are more than 600 species of Pandanus or Screw Pine, a member of the Pandanaceae family, genus monocots, in the tropics. Species vary in size from small bushes, less than 1 meter in height, up to medium-sized trees, 20 meters in height, commonly with a average growth rate. The Pandanus trees are found both [...]
Another unfamiliar with nut tree is the Monkey Puzzle tree, araucaria araucana. It is a native of Chile and Argentina highland regions, found generally above 1000 meters in parts with heavy snowfall in wintertime. It is hardy to -23ºC; the hardiest species in the conifer genus Araucaria. The leaves are dense, strong and scale-like, trilateral, [...]
The Finger Lime, Citrus australasica, is a spiny subtropical fruit tree (shrub) of easterly Australia rain forests. It’s a member of the Rutaceae family and has been lately popularized as a gourmet bush food. It is a small, 2-3 meters, small leafed slow growing shrub that over time become multi-branched and dense. There is an [...]
Eugenia brasiliensis is a subtropical fruit tree, indigenous to the southern Brazil. Full ripened fruits are pleasing to pick out-of-hand. Semi-ripe fruit is used into pies, jam or jelly.
The Blackberry is a bramble bush, genus Rubus a member of the rose family Rosaceae. It’s a distributed widely and a well known group of a few hundred species, several of which are close related. As there is forensic prove from the Iron Age Haraldskær Woman that she ate blackberries some 2500 years ago, it [...]
Tomatoes, Solanum lycopersicum or lycopersicon esculentum are widely cultivated plants having edible, flesh and commonly red fruit. It is an indigenous of the South Americas. It was known as love fruit in past years. We broadly connect tomatoes with other vegetables, but for the purposes of Phytology, tomatoes are counted to be fruit. From a [...]
