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Location Table — Fruits 



COASTAL AREA 



Description 



Illus. 



No. 



Common name 



Page 



No. 



Heart-shaped, yellow fruit; tinged with red 



13 

 26 

 28 



Custard apple 



22 



Small tree or bush; young leaves are red or purple 



Sea grape 



35 





Coco plum 



37 









CULTIVATED ONLY 



Fruits vary in size, shape, and color 



Bush or small tree; fruit is a tomato-red 



Green or purple apple-like fruit 



Fruit greenish; grows on tree trunk 



Fruit yellow green with white "bloom" _ 



Fruit almost black; resembles olive 



Round green or greenish-brown fruit 



Avocado 



Surinam cherry 



Star-apple 



Soursop 



Sweet-sop 



Aceituno 



Breadfruit 



DRY PLACES 



Red or yellow fruit resembling peppers 



Bright yellow flowers; yellow fruit 



Cactus; pear-shaped fruit 



Cactus; oval, bright pink fruit 



LOWLANDS 



Greenish or reddish fruits 



Fruit resembles muskmelon or cantaloupe 



Brown skin of fruit is either scaly or smooth 



Green or purple fruit resembles apple 



Flowers and fruits grow on trunk 



Fruit resembles plum; yellow to deep red 



Yellow green fruit with musky odor__ 



White or yellow fruit is hard and crisp 



Small red and yellow flowers; brown fruit 



Flowers bright yellow; fruit yellow 



Resembles pineapple; ripe fruit is yellow or red 



Fruit is better than pingwing 



Fruit is almost black; resembles olive 



Large fruit; with brown rough rind; red leaves 



Red or orange pod-like fruit 



Cashew {Caution) 



Nance 



Prickly pear 



Organ cactus 



Mango (Caution). 



Papaw__ 



Sapodilla 



Star-apple 



Cacao 



Spanish plum 



Guava 



Rose apple 



Tamarind 



Nance 



Pingwing 



Piro 



Aceituno 



Sunzapote 



Akee {Caution) 



