Fruits name starts with the letter " C "

1    Cacao fruit                                                         

      Cacao fruit  ( same as Cocoa fruit - Chocolate fruit )

      Real chocolate is a cocoa paste made from cacao seeds. Cacao seeds are the fruit of the cacao tree. The word Cacao  comes from the mayan word for the plant was "Cacau". Because of a spelling error, probably by english traders long ago, these beans became known as Cocoa beans. 

           Cacao fruit is native to Colombia. Chocolate is derived from the seeds (or pods) of the cacao. These fruits grow on the cacao tree. The cacao tree reaches a height from 4 up to 8 m. The leaves are oval and evergreen. The almost 1 cm big flowers grow the whole year directly at the trunk. The fruits look like fat cucumbers and are 15 to 30 cm big. During drying of the cacao fruit the skin turns from white to cacao red. In the fruit, there are about 20 till 50 brown beans. 

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2   Camu Camu Fruit                                                            

     Camu Camu Fruit (Myrciaria dubia)

    Camu Camu - Natures Fantastic Super Food. Commonly known as camucamu, cacari, or camocamo. The fruit size is 2 - 5 cm. A purplish red fruit that can be found almost everywhere in the Brazilian Amazon and the small shrubs that can reach 4 to 8 meters in height. 

      It produces a lemon sized, light orange to purplish red fruit with yellow pulp. This fruit is packed with more natural vitamin C than any other food source recorded on the planet, in addition to beta-carotene, potassium, calcium, iron, niacin, phosphorus, protein, serine, thiamin, leucine, and valine. These powerful phytochemicals and amino acids have a surprising range of therapeutic effects. Camu camu has astringent, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, emollient and nutritional properties.

        Studies show that they can also prevent weight gain in humans and reduce the risk of diabetes. This fruit is considered as a super food is currently moving into the focus of science when it comes to new ways to make losing weight easier.

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3    Cassabanana Fruit                                                                    

      Cassabanana (Sicana odorifera)
   

     Cassabanana Fruit is a large, herbaceous perennial vine native to tropical South America, grown as an ornamental plant and for its sweet edible fruit. Other names casbanan, sikana, puttigel and musk cucumber.

      Cassabanana is not, as the name suggests, a banana. It’s actually a type of gourd. The fruit, however, is very similar to a melon. Cassabanana fruits grow to about 2 feet (60 cm) long and 5 inches (13 cm) thick and are nearly perfect, sometimes curved, cylinders. The skin can be red, maroon, purple, or even black, and is thick enough that it has to be hacked open with a machete. Inside, however, the yellow flesh is very similar in taste and texture to that of a cantaloupe. The smell, which is very strong even before the fruit has been cut, is sweet and pleasant. 

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4    Chempedak Fruit                                                   

      Chempedak Fruit  (Artocarpus integer)

   The Chempedak is a species of tree in the family Moraceae, and in the same genus as breadfruit and jackfruit. It is native to southeast asia. Chempedak is an important crop in Malaysia and is also popularly cultivated in southern Thailand and parts of Indonesia. Other names cempedak.

          Unlike the jackfruit, latex disappears in the mature fruit. The fruit themselves are cylindrical in shape. They can be up to 45 cm long and can weigh as much as 6 kg. The fruit are covered in a green, yellow or orangy brown skin that is divided into a small hexagonal pattern. This skin is either smooth or covered with small, spiky protrusions. They are not as spiky as jackfruit. The flesh or aril of the fruit surrounds each seed and is firm, sweet and often deliciously creamy. Seeds are also edible and like the jackfruit, immature fruit can be used as a vegetable.

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5    Cherimoya Fruit                                                    

                                                                    
     This fruit is one of the best tasting fruits in the world. It is an exotic fruit.  The cherimoyas are fleshy, soft and sweet, oval shaped fruit, which is slightly oblique at the ends. It is a greenish yellow in colour, however some of them may have been tinged brown.  It is fleshy, and its flesh is white in colour. Its texture is like that of a sherbet. The fruit is about 10 to 20 cm in length and 7 to 10 cm in diameter.  
     Since Cherimoya bears resemblance to the custard apple, it is often misunderstood to be the same. It belongs to the same family as that of the custard apple. It is often called the Cherimoya Custard Apple in many places in the world. 


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 6    Chocolate pudding fruit  

       Chocolate pudding fruit (Diospyros nigra)

     Chocolate pudding fruit is an amazing fruit. Other names black sapote. The Fruit is a green-skinned fruit with black, sticky pulp. Chocolate pudding fruit, is a species of persimmon. The tropical fruit tree is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Guatemala. 

.    It really does taste like chocolate pudding, chocolate custard, or like a chocolate mousse dessert.  The fruit has the peculiarity of having the taste and the colour of the chocolate, but with way fewer calories: 45 for 100 grams (compared to 520 calories for 100 grams of chocolate).


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7     Cupuacu Fruit                                                       

       Cupuacu - theobroma grandiflorum 

      This fruit is native to the Amazon, this tree grows up to 65 feet (20 meters) high. Its fruit is the national fruit of Brazil — which is the world’s largest cupuacu producer.  Other names are cupuassu, cupuazu, cupu assu, or copoasu, is a tropical rainforest tree related to cacao.
      The fruit is ovular with a brown rind and white, fleshy pulp. It resembles its relative, the cacao fruit. Its flavour is compared to chocolate with hints of tropical fruit like melon or pineapple. Cupuacu is commonly used in desserts or pressed into a juice. In addition, its seeds are pressed to extract a nutrient-rich fat that’s used as a cooking oil or beauty treatment.
       Cupuacu is generally harvested from the ground once they have naturally fallen from the tree. It can be difficult to determine peak ripeness because there is no noticeable external colour change in the fruit. However studies have shown that in Western Colombian Amazon conditions, fruits generally reach full maturity within 117 days after fruit set.  Brazilians either eat it raw or use it in making sweets.


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8     Calamansi Fruit                                                               

       Calamansi - citrofortunella microcarpa 

      Calamansi is an intergenetic hybrid between the genes of a citrus and Kumquat. Calamansi is known by various names throughout the globe the most popular ones being calamonding, calamonding orange, calamansi, calamandarin, golden lime, kalamunding, kalamansi, Philippine lime, Panama orange, Chinese orange, musk orange and acid orange. Calamansi is widely cultivated in different parts of the world such as Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Southern China. This fruit is available throughout the year in Philippines and is mostly found in its unripen green state. This is more of an oranamental tree than fruit bearing tree despite the fact that its fruits are edible.
       This ornamental fruit holds within many benefits. An ideal remedy for dry cough and cold is a glass of warm water with lime juice and a teaspoonful of honey. The pectin content found in the pulp of the fruit is known to work wonders in lowering blood cholesterol.
      Calamansi is a rich source of vitamin C. Its juice is flavouring ingredients or as an additive in various food preparations. Some beverages, syrups, concentrates, and purees include pulp. The peel, on the other hand, is the main ingredient in making jams, candies and marmalade. With its alkalinizing effect, it helps the blood to circulate evenly and facilitates normal digestion.


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9    Citron  - Cedro  Fruit                                                                                                        

     Cedro Citron - citrus medica

    This is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick rind.  It is one of the four original citrus fruits from which all other citrus types developed through natural hybrid speciation or artificial hybridization.   Though citron cultivars take on a wide variety of physical forms, they are all closely related genetically.
    Cedro citron is one of the four original varieties of citrus that went on to parent all the modern varieties.  They are tied to folklore, ancient medicine and Jewish religious holidays, and are the oldest recorded citrus variety.  This large citrus variety that has few fresh applications and is typically used for its thick, white pith and oil infused zest.  Cedro citron is primarily found in Italy, especially along the Italian Riviera, though they are occasionally spotted in France and Britain. There are three different citron types: acidic, non-acidic and pulpless.
      The most popular use for the Cedro citron is for making candied citrus. Use Cedro citron to make marmalade or syrups.  In Italy, Cedro citron is used to make a popular Cedro liqueur, which is similar to limoncello.  This fruit is rich in vitamin C, potassium, and magnesium. It serves as an immune booster and is helpful in ridding the body of toxins, with powerful antioxidant benefits. 


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10    Citron - Dulcia Fruit  

        Dulcia Citron - 


      This is a relatively small citron; the fruit is about the size and shape of a large market tomato, flattened at both ends. Yellow rind, some fruits have a persistent style. Medium thick rind, sour, lemon-like flavour. Leaves are smallish with a blunt tip but fairly typical of citron.
      The main attraction of the Dulcia citron is its skin.  Zest the rind and add the flavourful results to make a compound butter, a sauce for seafood, or simple syrup for beverages. The skin also candies well, for use in desserts such as fruit cake and sweet rolls. Like other citrus, store citrons at room temperature for only a few days, or in the refrigerator for longer.
       The medium-thick rind is yellow to orange-yellow when ripe. The flesh is surrounded by white pith and contains many seeds. While its name suggests this citron is sweet, the Dulcia is actually quite sour and similar to a lemon. Citrons are notable for their fresh fragrance, and can even be used to perfume whole rooms.


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11    Cornelian Cherry Fruit     

        Cornelian Cherry -  cornus mas

      Cornelian Cherries are small trees, usually growing to around 15 feet in height, though they can reach up to 25 feet depending on the cultivar. Trunks can reach around eight inches in diameter.

     This small tree providing multi-season interest. In late winter to early spring, a profusion of small rounded clusters of tiny, bright yellow flowers open on the naked branches and will persist for several weeks. The showy blooms are followed by attractive glossy red, cherry-like fruits in midsummer. Edible, they may be used for syrups and preserves.

        Fruits are edible with an oval or pear-like shape and ranging in colour from red to purple and yellow. The weight of the Cornelian cherry’s fruit ranges from 2g to 10g, depending on the plant genotype and cultivation conditions. Fruit harvest yields 500–1000 kg per hectare in the case of wild-growing plants, but in orchards the yield can increase even fivefold.  The wild-growing bush of Cornelian cherry can yield 3–10 kg of fruit, whereas yield reaches 80 kg per bush for trees cultivated in an orchard.

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12    Candle Stick Fruit   

         Candle Stick Tree – parmentiera cereifera

The candle tree is native to Panama. The fruits are attached to the trunk and branches and from a distance, it appear like many candles hanging from the tree.  Candle Tree, is a species of tree belongs to bignoniaceae family and is endemic to Panama. The family is affluent in secondary metabolites and contains many genera of high economic and medicinal values. It consists of 104 genera and 860 species. This specimen is commonly cultivated in botanical gardens. 

This tree produced white or yellow funnel-shaped flowers directly on the trunk or larger branches.  These flowers develop into dangling yellow fruits up to three feet in length, and greatly resemble bunches of yellow wax candles hanging from the tree. The edible fruits and seeds are popular in some places in Mexico.

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