avocado
The flowering plant native to Mexico and Guam, 20 meters high and the egg shaped pit as the plant's fruit are called Avocado. The inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers measure 5-10 cm and the fruit 7-20 cm. It is also called avocado pear or alligator pear and it weights varies between 100 grams and 1 kilo. The seed is bigger than the other fruits belonging to the same plant family, Lauriceae (5-6.4 cm long). It displays a yellow to green flesh when ripe, but oxides contained may change the color into brown very soon after meeting the air molecules. The plant doesn't bear low temperatures and winds (it needs abundant hydration) although the rough green skin could successfully protect the flesh from external factors.

banana
The banana is the fruit of a pseudo stem plant, grown from an approximately 7 m high corm. The plant was domesticated in Southeastern Asia and archaeological discoveries have shown that cultivation of the wild variety dated since 500 BC. The fruit can be very tasty when ripe and eaten raw, but it is also a common ingredient in some cuisines as unripe fruits. The texture varies from firm to mushy while the taste is sweet when ripe (that is when than color is bright yellow, sometimes even purple or red) and starchy when unripe (the color may seem greenish).

cactus pear
Prickly pear cacti typically grow with flat, rounded platyclades that are armed with two kinds of spines; large, smooth, fixed spines and small, hairlike spines called glochids that easily penetrate skin and detach from the plant. Many types of prickly pears grow into dense, tangled structures.

cherimoya
Cherimoya is called a custard apple or sherbet fruit. This desert fruit has a sweet, juicy, custardlike flesh.

grapefruit
Due to its tartness, juiceiness, and low calorie count grapefruits are a popular breakfast food and salad ingredient.

grape
There are two basic types of grapes, American and European.

guava
Guava can be white-fleshed or red-fleshed. They can have a white, yellow, or red skin. The taste is sweet to sour.

kumquat
Kumquats are egg shaped citrus fruits usually eaten raw.

lemon
The two basic types of lemons are acid and sweet. The acidic types are the most commercially available. The sweet types are grown usually by home gardeners.

mandarin
The Mandarin orange is but one variety of the orange family. The mandarin has many names, some of which actually refer to crosses between the mandarin and another citrus fruit. Most canned mandarins are of the Mikan variety (derived from migan in Chinese), of which there are over 200 cultivars. One of the more well-known mikan cultivars is the "Owari", which ripens during the late fall season in the Northern Hemisphere. Clementines, however, have displaced mikans in many markets, and are becoming the most important commercial mandarin variety.

nectarine
Nectarines are sweeter than peaches. There are 150 varieties.

orange
Choose firm, heavy for their size, evenly shaped, smooth oranges. Smaller ones are sweeter. Avoid bruises and soft spots.

peach
The peach (桃 in Chinese) (Prunus persica) is known as a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. It is a deciduous tree growing to 5'10 m tall, belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. It is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus within the genus Prunus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.

yuzu
Yuzu is the most cold resistant citrus fruit. Yuzu starts as a lime color and ripens to yellow.