Fruits name starts with the letter " U "

1    Ugli Fruit                                                                                 

      Ugli Fruit - citrus X paradisi X reticulata

      Ugli fruit is a cross between a mandarin orange and a grapefruit. It’s generically known as tangelo. Other names – uniq fruit, unique fruit, ugly fruit, tangelo 

     The Fruit was discovered as an accidental seedling in Brown’s Town, Jamaica where it was propagated and exported beginning in the 1914.  Its parentage combines the best characteristics of the tangerine, grapefruit and Seville orange.

      This tangelo was a natural hybrid, having arisen spontaneously like the grapefruit, in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today.  'UGLI' is a registered trademark of Cabel Hall Citrus Limited, under which it markets the fruit, the name being a variation of the word "ugly", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside.

        Ugli fruit is juicy, and its taste is often described as sweet and tangy with slight notes of bitterness. Half of one ugli fruit (about 100 grams) contains almost a day’s worth of vitamin C, along with several other vitamins and minerals. Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a powerful antioxidant. It can help prevent damage caused by high levels of free radicals, which can lead to chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, or cancer.

For more information and images go to the link -- Ugli Fruit 

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 2    Umari Fruit                                                                  

       Umari - poraqueiba sericea

     The fruit is a very popular food within the plants native range in the Amazon. It is commonly gathered from the wild for local use, and the tree is also often cultivated in home gardens. A rare medium sized fruit, having a passing resemblance to the mango. The fruits can grow to around 3 - 4" and ripen with yellow skin. Flesh is yellow-orange, aromatic, with a flavour often described as unique.

      This is an evergreen, tropical, and fairly fast-growing tree with no known medicinal uses. It can be found in South America particularly in northern Brazil, where it grows usually about 15-25 m tall with a dense pyramidal canopy. Its bole is straight and about 30-50 cm in diameter. The fruits are edible specifically the fleshy pulp. It can be consumed raw or cooked. It yields oil which is edible as well. The wood is ideal for carpentry and construction but is mostly used for making charcoal. The plant can be grown from seeds and germination takes about 4-6 weeks after sowing.

      The fruits are eaten fresh and often served with Cassava flours. They are quite popular in the Amazon region and can often be found in local markets. The tree is commercialized on a small scale.

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  3      Udara Fruit   

         Udara - chrysophyllum albidum

Udara, Chrysophyllum albidum (commonly known as white star apple) is a forest fruit tree described by the Scottish botanist George Don. It is commonly found throughout tropical Africa. Amongst the Yoruba tribes of Nigeria, it is called Agbalumo, while called Udala in the eastern and southern parts of Nigeria. It is closely related to the African star apple (chrysophyllum africanum) which is also common throughout West Africa. Some schools of thought feel that they may just be a variety of the same species. Also in the family is the (purple) star apple (chrysophyllum cainito). Other names - African star apple, White star apple, Udala, African Cherry, Osan and Agbalumo.

This fruit is an exotic fruit which has a chewable edible skin that ranges in colour from green to orange, depending on the stage of ripeness. The tender, sweet inner flesh is off-white with seeds, making the inner to look like a star-shaped fruit. This obviously shows where it got the nickname ‘star apple’ and it has close to 4 or 6 seeds in it. The beautiful fruit can be gotten mostly everywhere in Nigeria towards the end of November till later in March when it would have gone out of season.

For more information and images click here -   Udara Fruit

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