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Hard-to-find tropical fruit:
Cecropia, Breadnut, Monkey Pot, and more...

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Artocarpus altilis (camansi)
Breadnut - rare exotic fruit tree. The leaves, evergreen or deciduous depending on climatic conditions, are ovate up to 3 ft long more or less deeply cut into many pointed lobes. The moist inner pulp of the fruit is eaten after cooking, and has the taste and texture of potatoes. This is Breadnut, same as Breadfruit, but it has seeds inside.

Cecropia peltata
Cecropia is a very showy tree with spreading crown and large leaves up to 24 inches wide with silver-white lower surfaces. Cyllindrical, soft-flesh fruit are drooping in clusters resembling octopus. They very tasty - sweet, watery, aromatic.

Aleurites moluccana - Kukui Nut
only 2 plants in stock!
Candlenut oil tree, Kukui nut tree. The nuts are widely used as a traditional lei. The Kukui Nut lei were worn by royalty back in the days of the Hawaiian monarchy (Alii). Originally it was most valued for its light, the oil of the white kernels being extracted for its use in stone lamps and in ti leaf sheath torches. The bark, flowers and nuts are all used for medicine. Kukui Nut Oil penetrates the skin well and is said to be excellent in treating many skin conditions including psoriasis, eczema, aging skin, and acne.

Kukui Lei

Rheedia brasiliensis (laterifolia)
Bacupari - rare exotic fruit tree. The translucent subacid white pulp has an excellent flavor; one of the best fruits of its genus.

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Lecythis zabucajo
Monkey Pot, Paradise Nut. Slow growing tree bearing large fruits up to a foot in diameter, yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers. Very rare and hard to get plant.

Annona reticulata var. San Pablo
Red Custard-Apple. Very rare fruit similar to Sugar Apple. Bigger fruit with dark red skin and pulp, superior flavor.