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Avocado

The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree that is native to South Central Mexico,[2] classified as a member
of the flowering plant family Lauraceae.[3] Avocado (also alligator pear) also refers to the tree's fruit,
which is botanically a large berry containing a single seed.[4]

Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean
climates throughout the world.[3] They have a green-skinned, fleshy body that may be pear-shaped, egg-
shaped, or spherical. Commercially, they ripen after harvesting. Avocado trees are partially self-
pollinating and are often propagated through grafting to maintain a predictable quality and quantity of
the fruit.

Banana
The banana is an edible fruit botanically a berry[1][2] produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering
plants in the genusMusa.[3] In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains, in contrast
to dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft
flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits
grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas
come from two wild species Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated
bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa
acuminata M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is

no longer used. Blueberry


Blueberries are perennial flowering plants with indigo-colored berries from
the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium (a genus that also
includes cranberries, bilberries and grouseberries). Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most
common[1] fruits sold as "blueberries" and are native to North America (commercially cultivated
highbush blueberries were not introduced into Europe until the 1930s).[2]

Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe (also cantelope, cantaloup, muskmelon (India and the United
States), mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon, Persian melon, or spanspek (South Africa)) refers to a
variety of the Cucumis melo species in the Cucurbitaceae family.

Cantaloupes range in weight from 0.5 to 5 kilograms (1 to 11 lb). Originally, cantaloupe referred only to
the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe.[2] However, in more recent usage it has come to mean
any orange-fleshed melon of C. melo, and has become the most popular melon in North America.[2]

Cherimoya
The cherimoya (Annona cherimola), also spelled chirimoya and called Chirimuya by the Inca people, is
an edible fruit-bearing species of the genus Annona from the family Annonaceae, which generally is
thought to be native to Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia[2] then transported to the Andes and Central
America.[2][3][4] Today, cherimoya is grown throughout South Asia, Central America, South
America, California, Hawaii, southern Europe, East Africa, Kisii in particular and northern Africa.[2]
Mark Twain called the cherimoya "the most delicious fruit known to men".[5] The creamy texture of the
flesh gives the fruit its secondary name, custard apple.

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