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Grow fresh tropical fruit in your own yard

mangos ready to be eaten

 

Tropical and sub-tropical fruit trees and dooryard fruit gardens bring exotic tastes to your table year round. Everyone knows Citrus trees, but here in south Florida we have many choices for delicious exotic fruits from around the tropics. Enjoy bananas, mangoes, star fruit, lychees, and many more, all grown in your own home garden. 

 

Below is a list of some of the exotic fruits you can grow in your own dooryard garden:

  • Atemoya - Annona cherimola X A. squamosa

  • Avocado - Persea americana

  • Banana - Musa spp.

  • Barbados cherry - Malpighia glabra

  • Star apple - Chrysophyllum cainito

  • Carambola/star fruit - Averrhoa carambola

  • Canistel/egg fruit - Pouteria campechiana

  • Fig - Ficus carica

  • Jaboticaba - Myrciaria cauliflora

  • Jackfruit/jakfruit - Artocarpus heterophyllus

  • Longan - Nephelium longana

  • Lychee - Litchi chinensis

  • Mamey sapote - Pouteria sapota

  • Mango - Mangifera indica

  • Papaya - Carica papaya

  • Passion fruit - Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa

  • Sugar apple - Annona squamosa

  • Tamarind - Tamarindus indica


If you would like to enjoy fruit fresh from your own garden, call 954-892-6007 to get started. 

 
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