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...a fruit tree for temperate regions, apples are grown above 1,300 m in many tropical and subtropical regions. In Ethiopia, apples are grown in Moist and Wet Wey ...juice), ingredient in jams, jellies, cakes and deserts in western cuisine (fruit). ...

East Indies and Burma. The tender, unripe fruit is eaten by the natives in their curries. ...e fruit, says Brandis, has a pleasant, sweetish, sub-acid flavor and is an important article of food of the hill tribes of central India. The kernel of the seed ...

...e young seedlings, which are raised on a large scale for that purpose, are important as an article of food. Livingstone says the fibrous pulp around the large n ...hern Circars. Firminger says the insipid, gelatinous, pellucid pulp of the fruit is eaten by the natives but is not relished by Europeans. A good preserve m ...

''[[Persea americana]]'' Lauraceae Tropical America Well-known fruit tree indigenous to tropical America and occuring from montane forest to coastal lowlands. Widely plante ...

...well in dry areas. A dry period of several months encourages flowering and fruit setting. Roots penetrate deeply so rocky subsoil should be avoided. The ext Firewood, food (fruit), fodder (leaves for goats, fruits for pigs), bee forage, shade, ornamental ...

Indigenous to tropical Africa; widely used in the Sahel, India, South East Asia, the Caribbean and ...ink, fruit, spice), medicine (bark, leaves, roots, fruit), fodder (leaves, fruit), shade, ornamental, mulch, nitrogen fixation, windbreak, tannin (bark). ...

...ca, often naturalized, also Mediterranean to India and cultivated in other tropical and subtropical parts of the world. In Ethiopia, it is common in Dry and Mo Firewood, charcoal, timber (utensils), fodder (leaves, fruit), food (fruit), bee forage, soil conservation, live fence, fencing material (dry branches ...

| Fruit= ...gascar as ornamental and roadside trees. It is an important timber tree in tropical Asia, but is not planted for timber production in Africa. ...

...t tree is restricted to the dry savannah and grassed woodlands of northern tropical Africa, from West Africa across Central Africa into Uganda and Ethiopia. In The fruit used as vegetable oil / butter for cooking and skin lotion. Has high potent ...

| Fruit= ...Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Mauritius. It is an important timber tree in tropical Asia, but is not planted for timber production in Africa. In Mauritius the ...

Brazil. This plant is recommended as yielding fruit in arid regions. ...is extracted from the kernel. Wallich describes a variety which produces a fruit of a long form, about the size of an egg, and which is of excellent quality ...

...onally elsewhere, e.g. in Mexico, New Zealand, southern Europe. It is most important in Colombia and Peru. ...boiled, roasted or candied. Oca is sometimes considered as the second most important root crop of the high Andes after Irish potato. For preservation, harvested ...

...India, says Finninger, this plant bears a great abundance of a pale green fruit of the size of a goose egg and of a rather agreeable flavor. Tropical America. The fruit is edible. ...

California. This variety furnishes an important article of food, in its seeds, to the Indians. Tropical Africa and eastern Asia. The rootstocks contain a sort of starch and are ea ...

An important tree throughout tropical Africa. It is found in savannah and prefers well‑drained rich soil. In Ethi ...ear neck to 1 cm long (unlike ''T. dregeana'') connects the capsule to the fruit stalk. Up to 6 shiny black seeds hang out of the open capsules, each one al ...

...e. Cultivated in tropical Africa and America and a great deal in India. An important crop in Ethiopia, cultivated in Dry and Moist Kolla, Weyna Dega and Dega ag *FRUIT: Straight or upcurved pods, to 10 cm long, sticky and hairy with 4–5 yellow ...

...opical America. It is extensively cultivated about Bombay and forms a very important article of food to the natives. In Africa, Livingstone found it cultivated Tropical Africa. A tree, known in Gabun as owala and in the Eboo country as opachalo ...

| Fruit= 1 ...in the fruit. The dye is used for cloth and stains like printer’s ink. The fruit is recorded to be eaten as a vegetable in Nigeria, and it is rubbed on the ...

...t Sao Matheus and occasionally as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The fruit is of immense size, being sometimes a foot and a half in the longer diamete ...lpy substance is much relished by the natives, being almost as good as the fruit of the jack. ...

Native to west tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to western Congo and northern Angola (Cabinda); pl ''T. superba'' is an important source of timber in Africa; the wood is used mainly as core and face veneer ...