the Garden of Eden

Someday, I want to live somewhere surrounded by fruit trees. It's weird how deliriously happy they make me. On Eli's birthday, we went to the military base social club, and I couldn't get over by how many exotic fruit trees there were in a quarter-mile radius:

There were coconuts...

and jaca (jackfruit)...

and jambo fruit...

and mangoes...

and what appeared to be some type of starfruit...

and tamarind (which I ate out of the pods)...

and my personal favorite, the graviola fruit (or one of its close cousins):

Comments

[Paul Dryden]

that last fruit also looks like a guanabana....

one of my favorites!

[elena]

Ai que saudades me dar !
Aqui so como jaca enlatada vindo da Indonesia...horrivel, mas fazer o que?

[vanessa]

Gostei muito do seu blog.
Ta saudade desse pais!!!

[vanessa]

Gostei muito do seu blog.
Ta saudade desse pais!!!

[Alessandra]

The "starfruit" looks very much like a pitanga, a delicious berry typical of Brazil. It makes great caipirinha!

More about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinam_Cherry

[polyana]

i think the star fruit is carambola! mmmm... yummy.

[Lisa]

Mangosteen. I do not know the name in Brasil, but I bought them there this year. Perhaps they were imported.
The BEST fruit in the world.

[Ray Adkins]

Rachel,

The one you think is a kind of star fruit is a "Pitanga". It is very popular in Florida and when I walked my dog around Miami I used to pick and eat them along the way. It is a great fruit, filled with Vitamin C.

[Silvia]

Pitangas are great, I miss my pitangueira. My parents always liked having fruit trees around, my favorite has always been the lemon (well, lime) tree - it never stops producing.

Another nice thing about pitanga is that you can make tea out of its leaves, it's not incredibly tasty (not awful either) but it's a very effective cold medicine.

[Melissa]

The starfruit you couldn't name...Looks like a fruit called pitanga, but i'm not sure!