In Southern California, we all love to eat a fresh avocado, drink a glass of sun-ripened orange juice, or harvest a delicious plum from our backyard trees. However, growing fruit trees in an arid ...

When you think of lemons and avocados, you might assume that they can only be grown in warm climates. However, many tropical ...

Growing your own fruit is an excellent way to diversify a home garden. Determining which species to grow based on your climate may feel limiting. However, if you are living in subtropical regions or ...

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Last week, we traveled vicariously to visit the tropical fruits of the New World. This week, let us imagine that we are in the jungles of Borneo, home of orangutans, proboscis monkeys and humans who ...

Columbus and other early voyagers to the Americas filled their travel journals with breathless descriptions of the tropical fruits they’d never seen before: avocados, papayas, pineapples, soursop, ...

Here's the scoop on this tropical treat. "Black sapote, also called black soap apple, is a close cousin to the persimmon and is sometimes referred to as black persimmon,” says Desiree Pardo Morales, ...

Brent Dennis, director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, experienced many "life-shaping horticultural moments" when he was growing up. One occurred when he was 7. "I remember the first ...

Prepare for your mouth to water! In this video I took a trip to a local fruit market in North Bogota and picked up some ...

Exotic trees are rarely grown among fruit tree growers in Uganda. Instead, fruits such as mangoes, jackfruit and pawpaw are the most commonly grown especially in the central region. Soren Jegindoe, a ...

The pleasure of hanging out with plant people is what you learn from them. Such people, and the plants they grow, are typically full of wonderful surprises. Just the other day, I met Ash Jahanbin, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jenn Rice is a nomadic journalist who covers food and drink. In-room hotel fruit will never be the same after you indulge in this ...