fruit tree

1. Tree bearing edible fruit (synset 112672582)
   is a type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
   subtypes:

   • custard apple, custard apple tree - any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp
   • avocado, avocado tree, persea americana - tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
   • durian, durian tree, durio zibethinus, durion - tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
   • mustard tree, salvadora persica, toothbrush tree - glabrous or pubescent evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Salvadora; twigs are fibrous and in some parts of the world are bound together in clusters and used as a toothbrush; shoots are used as camel fodder; plant ash provides salt
   • olive tree - a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit
   • anchovy pear, anchovy pear tree, grias cauliflora - West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango
   • eugenia corynantha, sour cherry - Australian tree with sour red fruit
   • eugenia uniflora, pitanga, surinam cherry - Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida
   • eugenia jambos, jambosa, rose apple, rose-apple tree - tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit
   • jaboticaba, jaboticaba tree, myrciaria cauliflora - small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches
   • guava, guava bush, psidium guajava, true guava - small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit
   • guava, psidium littorale, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava - small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
   • cattley guava, psidium cattleianum, psidium littorale longipes, purple strawberry guava - small tropical shrubby tree bearing deep red oval fruit
   • brazilian guava, psidium guineense - South American tree having fruit similar to the true guava
   • pomegranate, pomegranate tree, punica granatum - shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
   • garcinia mangostana, mangosteen, mangosteen tree - East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit
   • mamey, mammea americana, mammee, mammee apple, mammee tree - tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
   • carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw - tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
   • mulberry, mulberry tree - any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry
   • artocarpus altilis, artocarpus communis, breadfruit, breadfruit tree - native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
   • artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit, jackfruit tree - East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
   • artocarpus odoratissima, marang, marang tree - Philippine tree similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit
   • chrysobalanus icaco, coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum, icaco - small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit
   • cydonia oblonga, quince, quince bush - small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
   • eriobotrya japonica, japanese medlar, japanese plum, loquat, loquat tree - evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
   • apple tree - any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits
   • medlar, medlar tree, mespilus germanica - small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples
   • plum, plum tree - any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
   • plumcot, plumcot tree - hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca
   • apricot, apricot tree - Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
   • cherry, cherry tree - any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
   • almond tree - any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts
   • peach, peach tree, prunus persica - cultivated in temperate regions
   • nectarine, nectarine tree, prunus persica nectarina - variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
   • pear, pear tree, pyrus communis - Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
   • genipa - any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind
   • averrhoa carambola, carambola, carambola tree - East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit
   • averrhoa bilimbi, bilimbi - East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit
   • citrus, citrus tree - any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
   • dika, irvingia gabonensis, wild mango, wild mango tree - African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
   • akee, akee tree, blighia sapida - widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh
   • dimocarpus longan, euphorbia litchi, longan, longanberry, lungen, nephelium longana - tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium
   • lichee, litchi, litchi chinensis, litchi tree, nephelium litchi - Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium
   • genip, ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, melicocca bijuga, melicocca bijugatus, spanish lime, spanish lime tree - tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
   • nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan, rambutan tree - Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit
   • nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree, pulassan - East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan
   • mangifera indica, mango, mango tree - large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
   • hog plum, spondias mombin, yellow mombin, yellow mombin tree - tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit
   • jocote, mombin, mombin tree, spondias purpurea - common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit
   • persimmon, persimmon tree - any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
   • caimito, chrysophyllum cainito, star apple - evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides
   • achras zapota, manilkara zapota, sapodilla, sapodilla tree - large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras
   • canistel, canistel tree, pouteria campechiana nervosa - tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit
   substance holonym: fruitwood - wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork

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