[Fungi]

And Brazil, and Thailand, and Viet Nam, and Mexico, and Spain, and .......Read The Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, Wilson Popenoe. It will surely be an eye opener. Consider the Jaboticaba, a fruit tree where the fruit arises from the stalk of the tree, not from the branches. I guarantee not one in 500, 000 freepers has ever tasted a Jaboticaba fruit.

[Maringa]

I’m one of the 500,000! One of my favorite fruits of all time. The look like small, black grapes, grow on the truncks of the tree. It has a wonderful, white, sweet pulp. My mom used to make jelly out of them. Hard to describe flavor...citrussy, ripe plum flavor..lived in Brazil during my youth...