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Sweet Tamarind Vietnamese Pink. A rare variety with sweetest fruit. A graceful tree with racemes of pea-like flowers. Tart fruit is preferred by Islanders and sweet fruit is preferred by Asians. The pulp within the pods is used to make beverages, curries, chutneys and sauces. Also Eaten fresh, in candies and relishes.

Jackfruit (Jakfruit) Gold Nugget - sweet aromatic variety with bright golden color. This variety was selected in Australia. The tree is fast growing with dense, spreading canopy. It can be easily pruned to maintain small tree around 8 ft tall. The fruit are about 10 lb, greenish-yellow and rounded. The flesh is excellent and has no fiber, soft to medium firm depending on ripeness.

Yellow Passion Fruit, Maracuya - delicious fruit, flavor is appealing, musky, guava-like, acid. Great for drinks.
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Native American Persimmon. Smaller, 2-3" fruit, astringent, doesn't need cold to bloom, eaten soft.
A plum-like berry that is green before ripening, turning orange to black when ripe, 3/4 to 2 inches in diameter. Cold hardy.
Astringent cultivars have water-soluble tannins in the flesh of the fruit at maturity (harvest) and do not normally lose their astringency until soft and ripe.
Learn more: Growing Persimmon trees.

Jamaican Rain Tree. Rare slow growing plant, can be grown as bonsai or small specimen tree. Very showy flowers.

A low branching shrub or small tree with multiple trunks. Showy pink flowers, like a powderpuff, are bright pink on the surface and pale pink to white inside the "powderpuff" ball. This is a excellent container plant for the cooler climates and for the warmer regions a beautiful outdoors plant.

Peanut Butter Tree. One of the most fascinating exotic fruit, as amazing as Miracle fruit, Peanut Butter Fruit is loved by both kids and adults. Yes, it tastes exactly like peanut butter! Sweet, soft pulp with peanut flavor. The tree is small in size, grows 10-15 ft max, or can be kept as a bush. Starts fruiting within 2-3 years from seed! Keep it in a pot if you have limited space, can be grown indoors, too.
This attractive tree has clusters of yellow flowers that are followed by an abundance of dark red fruit. The rich, sweet flesh has a texture similar to peanut butter. The fruit can be eaten fresh or made into milk shakes. Very rare in cultivation.
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Carambola (Starfruit) var Bell. The fruit is large, round shape, golden color, sweet and crispy.
Small symmetrical tree. Fruits very prolifically. Fruit is star-shaped when cut across the middle. It has a sweet, watery, slightly acid, pleasant tasting pulp. Eaten fresh, in salads, as garnishes, in drinks or preserved. Mature trees may survive light frost but young trees must be protected from frost and especially - wind. The plant will fruit in container even when in small size (2-3 ft). Season: August - March.

Avocado Wurtz (Little Cado) is a dwarf hybrid. It is very compact and slow growing, reaching only about 10-15 feet at maturity. Great for dooryard or container growing. The tree can handle temperatures to 25(F) degrees. Fruit is thin-skinned, 10-12 oz. The seed is small and fruit skin is smooth.
Fruits ripen green from May to September. The flavor is very good. Production is good and it is a consistent bearer.
See avocado varieties chart.

The Hass (Haas) avocado is dark-colored with a rough and bumpy skin. Will turn black when ripe while other varieties remain green.
See avocado varieties chart. This is Florida Hass variety, which does well in hot and humid climate, unlike California Hass, which prefers dry climate

Avocado, best grafted varieties. Fruiting size. HALL is a tasty pear shaped fruit, and the tree exhibits excellent tolerance to the cold.
See avocado varieties chart.

Lemon Bay Rum Tree, Citrus Bay - all plant parts have strong lemon scent, very pleasant and relaxing. One of the rarest plants, cuttings are hard to root.
Bay Rum is a small sized tree related to the Allspice, with leaves containing and aromatic oil that somewhat resembles clove oil. This essential oil is distilled from the leaves and is used in perfumes. A type of cologne named 'Bay Rum' was historically made in the early 20th century by distilling the oil using rum and water, hence the common name of the plant. Leaves of can be used in cooking and tea. For generations, Bay Rum has been used in folk medicine. This spice scent will be with you right away and will stay all the time, don't have to wait till bloom or fruit...

Giant granadilla. Delicious fruit of wonderful flavor is eaten fresh or used in drinks. The unripe, green fruit is eaten as a vegetable.

Elite Gold are a juicy, white flesh pineapple with a soft center. This cultivar boasts a high sugar content with no acid. Grows only 2-3 ft high making it an excellent container plant that can even be grown in cold areas and brought indoors for the winter. All around great cultivar.
Read more about Pineapple: The most luscious Hospitality Fruit: Pineapple.

Aster Tree, Snow Bush, White Cloud Tree. This unique plant is the only tree in Asteraceae family. The persistent white pappus of the infructescences remains showy for months after the plants stop blooming. The plant looks like a white cloud or covered with snow. Winter bloomer. Unusual shape leaves 1-2" wide. Can be grown as a large bush, trained into a small standard tree, or kept in a pot. Very hardy plant, tolerates drought and poor soils, and some freeze.

This burgundy variegated pineapple is a strikingly beautiful plant, makes a very attractive houseplant or a unique addition to a tropical landscape. It has edible fruit but is is valued for its exceptional ornamental features.
Read more about Pineapple: The most luscious Hospitality Fruit: Pineapple.

This Dwarf Miniature Creeping Gardenia offers nearly all the beloved traits of larger gardenias - lush evergreen foliage, heavenly fragrance, and elegant white blooms - in a compact, manageable form. Its modest size, spreading habit, and relative tolerance make it an excellent choice for container gardening, small landscapes, or even bonsai enthusiasts. With attention to soil acidity, drainage, and consistent moisture, this little plant can deliver big delight.
See page about gardenias, their cultivation and varieties

Black Sapote, Chocolate Pudding Fruit, Black/Chocolate Persimmon. One of the most exotic tropical fruit, sweet black pulp tastes like chocolate pudding. Cold tolerant to light freeze, flood tolerant. Fast growing tree, heavy producer. Seedlings will fruit within 2-3 years.

Giant fruit Mulberry - makes 2-3" long fruit! A beautiful ornamental bearing sweet, juicy fruit. Tastes like extra-sweet blackberries. Disease and drought resistant. Beginning the very first year, you can enjoy its fruit all spring.

Passiflora nitida (Bell Apple) is a tasty, but relatively unknown passion fruit native to the Amazon jungle region. This is a rare, really delicious fruit which is much sweeter than any passion fruit. It grows in the tropical lowlands from Costa Rica in the north and French Guiana in the northeast, through wide parts of Brazil. It is similar to P. laurifolia, with orange-yellow fruits that have a sweet, succulent pulp. It is a fast-growing tropical vine. Its flowers are blue and red, a bit like P. laurifolia and P. quadrangularis. The fruits grow up to 2 in. It is tropical and should be protected from frost. The fruits are eaten fresh and very sweet, with no acid, yet very good in flavor. Passiflora nitida is also a useful fruit in a drink called Purple Passion.

Very unusual ipomoea that forms a large caudex. See picture of plants

Desert Cassia. A small tree with a beautiful cascading habit, covered with showers of yellow flowers. It is suitable for pot culture and bonsai, has tiny leaves. The tree is nearly everblooming, relatively cold-hardy.

Horseradish tree, Ben Oil Tree. Possibly one of the most useful trees in the world, it produces long green pods that have been compared to a cross between peanuts and asparagus. The roots are used as a substitute for horseradish and the edible leaves make a highly nutritious vegetable. The roots have also been used in many folk remedies.
Cover seeds with 3/4" well-drained soil mix, keep warm, water when soil is nearly dry. Bright light.