Fruits name starts with the letter " L "

1    Lady Apple Fruit                                                                 

      Lady Apple - syzygium suborbiculare 

        The fruits can be eaten raw and have a pleasant if not slightly acid tatse. Although not harmful the seeds should be discarded when eaten. Aboriginal people would heat the large leaves and use them on the skin as addressing for wounds. The bark and leaves were also used to make tea to treat diarrhoea.

        Found in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, this small tree lives in open forests and woodlands. Other names are red bush apple, native apple and forest satinash.

       White flowers have many stamens. Leaves are thick and leathery. The fruit, fleshy in a flat-globular shape, is eaten as is by aboriginal natives. Fruit contains a large seed. Tree also used medicinally, as wood for fires, and nectar for bees.

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2    Loquat Fruit                           

      Loquat - eriobotrya japonica 

       Loquat is a large evergreen shrub or small tree, can grow to 4-5 meters. The loquat fruit ripens during spring to summer it depends upon the climate and temperature of the area. The leaves are long 4-10 in inches, dark green in color, Leathery in texture, and the loquat leaves are alternate and with a serrated margin. In loquat tree, flowers are white in color and small size with sweetly fragrant.

     Loquat fruits, growing in clusters, are oval, rounded or pear-shaped, 3–6 centimetres  long, with a smooth or downy, yellow or orange, sometimes red-blushed skin. The succulent, tangy flesh is white, yellow or orange and sweet to subacid or acid, depending on the cultivar.

      The fruits are the sweetest when soft and orange. The flavour is a mixture of peach, citrus and mild mango.  It also has health benefits such as it helps to improve skin health and eye vision, helps in weight loss, maintains blood pressure and increases blood.

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3    Lilly Pilly Fruit                               

      Lilly Pilly - syzygium luehmannii

    The Lilly Pilly berry, is also known as the riberry and is botanically classified within the syzygium genus. There are over 60 different Lilly Pilly species, each tree bearing fruits that vary in colour, size and flavour. The most edible species of Lilly Pilly berries, syzygium luehmannii, also happens to be the sweetest. This tree is a medium-sized coastal rainforest tree native to Australia. Other names are riberry, small leaved lilly pilly, cherry satinash, cherry alder and clove lilli pilli.
      The fruit is most commonly used to make a distinctively flavoured jam and is also used in sauces, syrups and confectionery. It can also be eaten and enjoyed straight off the tree. The riberry plant is also very popular as a garden ornamental and street tree. It is easily maintained as a smaller tree by light pruning.
      This super food berry has great anti-ageing and astringent properties. It contains vitamin C and fruit acids making it an excellent promoter of the production of collagen and elastin in the skin to help improve the firmness of the skin.


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4    Lucuma Fruit                       

      Lucuma - pouteria lucuma 

   Lucuma fruit can be eaten raw, out of hand.  In Peru, Lucuma is one of the most popular ice cream flavours, and can also be combined with milk or fruit juice to make shakes. It can be used as a pie filling, and for preserves. Lucuma is also found in powder form, and is commonly used as a sweetener. Lucuma powder can be used in place of sugar in raw food smoothies, mixed into yogurt, or sprinkled onto cereal.
      Lucuma is a round or oval-shaped fruit that has a thin green skin, and grows to around 6 centimeters in diameter.  This exotic fruit resembles an avocado, until one opens the fruit to reveal Lucuma’s bright yellow inner flesh. Each fruit features 1 to 3 shiny, dark brown seeds. The pulp is dry, with a texture reminiscent of cooked egg yolk.  The taste of the pulp is sweet and rich, and is often likened to baked sweet potato.  Lucuma is also called Eggfruit, referring to Lucuma’s yellow pulp that has the look and feel of a hard-boiled egg yolk.


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