Tropical Fruits and Its Value

Star Fruit Star fruit or Carambola (Averrhoa carambola) is a local fruit famous in Southeast Asia region, south pacific and eastern parts of Asia. The fruit is generally shaped pentagon, this is could probably the reason why it is called star fruit. Scientific classification: Kingdom    : Plantae Division     : Magnoliophyta Class          : Magnoliopsida Order          : Oxalidales Family       : Oxalidaceae Genus        : Averrhoa Species      : A. carambola

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is another kind of tropical fruit that native to South and Southeast Asia. Outer fruit skin, pointy-pointy-shaped, green, with white flesh when young, then turns into yellow when ripe. This tree is widely cultivated in tropical regions of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Jackfruit is also found in East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius) as well as throughout Brazil and Caribbean nations such as Jamaica. In a tropical area like Southeast Asia region, the tree can be found from low land until 1,300 above sea level.  This fruit can be found anytime, because jackfruit is not a seasonal fruit. Jackfruit is very sweet and tasty, when the jackfruit opened, you will find the bright yellow pods (when ripe) which can be eaten raw or cooked. When unripe its flesh is green, and it can be made into various delicious vegetable dishes. Scientific Classification : Kingdom: Pla...

Salak ( Salacca zalacca ) also named as Snake fruit is a tropical fruit native of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Salak is a kind of palm tree (family Arecaceae) with fruit that can be eaten without any further process. Salak is a kind of palm-shaped shrubs or barely trunked, prickly, growing into dense clumps and strong. It is a very short-stemmed palm, with leaves up to 6 metres (20 ft) long; each leaf has a 2-metre long petiole with spines up to 15 centimeters (5.9 in) long, and numerous leaflets. Salak (Salacca zalacca) Shape of the fruit generally triangular rather round or oval upside down, pointed at the base and rounded at the ends, 2.5 to 10 cm long, covered by scales yellow brown to red brown shiny composed like tiles, with many small spines are easily broke up at the end of each scale. Wall fruit center (sarkotesta) thick fleshy, creamy yellow to whitish; taste sweet, and sour, seeds 1-3 grains, brown to black, hard, 2-3 cm in length. Salak f...