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Discover Philippine Fruits
Atis
Atis or Sugar Apple (Anona squamosa L) - Atis is the most widely grown of all the species of the sugar apple family (Anona squamosa L). The tree grows up to 20 ft tall with open crown of irregular branches, and a zigzag-looking twigs. The deciduous leaves are short with an oblong, blunt tip; dull-green on the upperside, pale with a bloom below; slightly hairy when young; aromatic when crushed. The fragrant flowers are borne singly or in groups of 2 to 4.
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Balimbing
Balimbing or Five Corners (Averrhoa carambola L.) - is a five-sided fruit that gives a star shape in cross section. The fruit is usually pale green and turns yellow when ripened. Balimbing is native to the Malay peninsula and is grown throughout the Philippines. The fruit can be eaten when ripe; has a tart taste and can be eaten with salt. It is claimed that the fruit reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics and used as a diuretic in Chinese medicine.
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Bayabas
Bayabas or Guava (Psidium guajava) - One of the most gregarious of fruit trees, from the myrtle family (Myrtaceae). In Spanish, the tree is guayabo, or guayavo, the fruit guayaba or guyava. In Malaya, it is generally known either as guava or jambu batu, but has also numerous dialectal names in India, tropical Africa and the Philippines. A small tree with spreading branches, the guava is easy to recognize for its smooth, thin, greenish layer beneath with attractive, "bony" trunk.
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Santol
Santol (Sandoricum Indicum) - is thought to be the only important edible fruit of Meliaceae family. It is a fast-growing, straight-trunked, pale-barked tree 50 to 150 ft (15-45 m) tall, branched close to the ground and buttressed when old. Young branchlets are densely brown-hairy. The evergreen, or very briefly deciduous, spirally arranged leaves are compound, with 3 leaflets, elliptic to oblong-ovate, 4 to 10 in (20-25 cm) long, blunt at the base and pointed at the apex. Click for More Details
Tambis
Tambis or Water apple (S. aqueum Alst) - is the least of the small group of somewhat similar fruits of the genus Syzygium (family Myrtaceae). It is also known as watery rose apple, is distinguished in Malaya as jambu chili; in Indonesia as djamboo aer, djamboo wer, or djamboo wir. In the Philippines, it is called tambis; in Thailand, it is chom-phu-pa. The flesh is white or pink, mildly fragrant, dry or juicy, crisp or spongy, and usually of sweetish but faint flavor.
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