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Chupa Chupa Fruit / Quararibea cordata
Quararibea cordata, the South American sapote or chupa-chupa, is a large, semi-deciduous, fruit tree (up to 45m in height), native to Amazon rainforest vegetation in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It bears orange-yellow fruit which is soft, juicy, sweet and contains 2-5 seeds. Fruit is usually eaten out of hand, though it may be juiced.…
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Musa Ensete glaucum / Pisang Vidak / Pisang Sunan Bonang
Ensete glaucum, the snow banana, has also been classified as Musa nepalensis, Ensete giganteum, or Ensete wilsonii. This gigantic monocarpic herbaceous plant is native to China, Nepal, India, Myanmar (Burma), and Thailand. Ensete glaucum has a thick, waxy with sometimes bluish tinge, solitary pseudostem. It grows larger than the Abyssinian Banana (Ensete ventricosum). Its leaves…