Fruits in Penang

Tropical fruits in the Tropical Fruit Farm of Penang

Fruits in Tropical Fruit Farm Penang

Fruits in Tropical Fruit Farm Penang

Jackfruit of Penang - Nangka - Kathal

Common names: jak-fruit, nangka, jak, jaca, khanun, khnor, mak mi, may mi, mit. It's called "Kathal" in Sindhi. Origin: Nangka or Kathal is indigenous to areas of South and Southeast Asia and is thought to have originated in the rainforests of Southwest India, now Kerala and Karnataka coast. It belongs to the family of the Moraceae. Description: Nangka is said to be the world's biggest tree-born fruit, at least 25 cm in diameter. The yellow fruit is crispy, with a flavour of pineapple and banana, some say it smells like durian. Growth: Nangka Habitat is only tailored to humid tropical and near-tropical environments.

Pineapple of Penang

Commonly called Pineapple, Ananas, Nanas, Pina, etc. The pineapple is indigenous to southern Brazil and Paraguay. Before Columbus came, the Indians spread it to the West Indies through South and Central America. It belongs to the family of Bromeliaceae. The pineapple looks very similar to the pinecone, popular throughout the world because of its sweet and tart taste. The pineapple is a tropical or near-tropical plant. For excellent development and sweetness, full sun is required.

Tropical Fruit Farm Penang

Tropical fruit trees and plants growing at the Tropical Fruit Farm Penang.

Macadamia integrifolia Tree in Penang

Macadamia tree (Macadamia integrifolia, Macadamia tetraphylla). Common names: Queensland nut, bush nut, Maroochy nut, queen of nuts, bauple nut, gyndl, jindilli, boombera. Origin Native to eastern Australia, New Caledonia and Sulawesi in Indonesia. Belongs to Proteaceae family. Description A subtropical tree that produces a fine, creamy-sweet, round nut. Growth Habitat A mild, frost-free climate with abundant rainfall throughout the year. High summer temperatures can reduce yields. Fruits Macadamia tetraphylla trees, having rough-shelled nuts, produce nuts with high carbohydrate content, sweeter flavor, and lower oil content than those from the smooth-shelled M. integrifolia nuts. The high oil content of M. integrifolia makes it superior to M.tetraphylla for roasting and salting.

Pinapples in Penang

Also known as Ananas comosus; Ananas bracteatus. The pineapple is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay where wild relatives occur. It was spread by the Indians up through South and Central America to the West Indies before Columbus arrived. It belongs to Bromeliaceae family. The pineapple looks very similar to the pinecone, very popular all over the world for its sweet and tart flavor. The pineapple is a tropical or near-tropical plant. Full sun needed for good growth and sweetness.

Plant Propagation Techniques at Tropical Fruit Farm Penang

One of the various techniques they use to propagate plants at the Tropical Fruit Farm in Penang, Malaysia.

Growing Climbing Fruit Plants

One of the several methods to plant the climbers and their support trellis used in the Tropical Fruit Farm, Penang, Malaysia.

Climbing Plant Fruits in Penang Fruit Farm

Various methods used to support climbing fruit plants at the farm. Visit https://travelsandholidays.com/malaysia/penang/ for everything you need to visit Penang

Mulching for the roots of the Mamy sapote (Pouteria sapota) tree at the Penang Tropical Fruit Farm, Malaysia.

Musk Lime Tree - Citrus Reticulata

Other names include: Calamondin orange, calamansi, calamandarin, chinese orange, golden lime, panama orange, Philippine lime, scarlet lime, hazara, jeruk kasturi, limau chuit, limau kesturi, kalamansi, manao-wan, som mapit, szu kai kat, shikikitsu, kalamondyna. The musk lime that belongs to Rutaceae family is believed native to China and thought to have been taken in early times to Indonesia and the Philippines. It is widely grown in India and throughout southern Asia and Malaysia. The fruit of musk lime resembles a small, round lime, usually 25-35mm in diameter, but sometimes up to 45mm. The center pulp and juice is the orange color of a tangerine with a very thin green (unripe form) or orange (fully ripe) colored peel. The pulp, in 6 to 10 segments, is highly acid, seedless or with 1 to 5 small, obovoid seeds, green within. Visit https://travelsandholidays.com/malaysia/penang/ for everything you need to visit Penang

Nutmeg or Jaiphal Tree

Nutmeg or Jaiphal is also known as Mace, muscdier, magic, muskatbaum, noz moscada, myristica, nuez moscada, buah pala, nux moschata. It is an evergreen tree which belongs to Myristicaceae family and is indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands) of Indonesia. The nutmeg nut and its lacy, scarlet-colored, fibrous mace are obtained from the fruit of the nutmeg tree. The nutmeg fruit, in fact, is a drupe, about the size of an apricot, which when it ripens splits up to reveal single oval-shaped hard kernel or seed known as "nutmeg spice." The seed is wrapped by crimson-red colored lacy or thread like arils known as "mace." Both spices have a similar warm, sweet aromatic flavor. The herb is very popular as a spice and is often used for culinary purposes. Other uses include its use in incense, as a flavoring agent in making sweets, baked goods, sauce, ice cream, custards, and in coffee drinks including cappuccino. It is also used in soaps, cosmetics, and air fresheners.

Dragon fruits are also known as Strawberry pear, nanettikafruit, pinkberry, huǒ lóng guǒ (fire dragon fruit), lóng zhū guǒ (dragon pearl fruit), buah naga, kaeo mangkon (dragon crystal), thanh long (sweet dragon) and Dragon ball fruit. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and South America. It is likely from Southern Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. It belongs to Cactaceae family. The biggest in all edible cacti fruits. Two varieties have magenta-pink skins with polka-dotted white or magenta flesh and another with yellow skin with thorn and white flesh with tiny black seeds. Fruits mature 30-50 days after flowering. Fruit are large, between 150-1.2kg and brightly colored pink, crimson, yellow or red with fleshy green scales. The flesh is white or red or magenta with many tiny black seeds.

Canistel or Yellow Sapote or Pouteria campechiana is also called Eggfruit, boracho, toesa, cucuma, mammee sapota, zapote mante, to maa, lamut khamen, sawo mentega, sawo ubi, sapota amarela, ti-es, siguapa, zapotillo. The canistel belongs to Sapotaceae family, has its center of origin in Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is cultivated all over Central America, including the Caribbean Islands up to Southern Florida and the Bahamas. It was introduced into the Philippines and Hawaii in about 1924. The canistel tree is erect and generally no more than 8m tall, but in favorable situations, may reach a height of 27-30m and the trunk may attain a diameter of 1m. Slender in habit or with a spreading crown, it has brown, furrowed bark and abundant white, gummy latex. Young branches are velvety brown. The fruits are about the size of an apple, yellowish to orange in color with somewhat mealy pulp similar in appearance and texture to a cooked egg yolk enclosing often a single large seed. The flavor is sweet, more or less musky, and somewhat like that of a baked sweet potato.

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Gấc Fruit or Momordica cochinchinensis

Gấc (botanical name: Momordica cochinchinensis) is a sort of perennial melon cultivated in the regions of Southeast Asia and Northeast Australia. It is noteworthy for its reddish-orange color due to the rich presence of beta-carotene and lycopene. Gac fruit has a gentle taste and thick flesh (mesocarp). There are two components inside a gac plant: fruit (yellow) and red seed membrane. Edible aril is found more in larger fruits than in lower fruits. When the fruits are mature, the aril surrounding gac fruits are boiled with sticky rice to create "Xôi Gcc," a traditional red-colored Vietnamese dish eaten at weddings and New Year celebrations. The spiny skin is separated and the fruits are sliced and cooked sometimes with potato or bottle gourd. In Sri Lanka, gac is used in curry, and in Thailand, gac is served with ice cream.

Hog Plum Trees

The hog plum and several other species of the genus Spondias are cultivated for their edible plumlike fruits. The young leaves can also be eaten, and various parts of the plant are used in traditional medicine. The plants have naturalized in many parts of Africa and southeast Asia.

Coconut Palm

Coconut, coconut palm (English) niu (Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji) coco de agua, palmera de coco (Spanish), Kokospalme (German), noix de coco (French) kelapa, nyior (Malaysia/Indonesia), niyog (Tagalog). Generally originated from coastal areas of Southeast Asia. It belongs to the Arecaceae family or the palm family. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit. It is not a botanical nut but a drupe. A drupe is a fruit with skin and flesh that surrounds a hardened shell with a seed inside. Found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, the coconut palm prospers on sandy soils and is highly tolerant of salinity. It needs abundant sunlight and regular rainfall (150 cm to 250 cm annually). Coconuts also need high humidity (70–80%+) for optimum growth and temperatures above 24°C. The first mature fruits can be produced 5–6 years from planting. Fruits are produced throughout the year but where rainfall is seasonal, more fruits are produced in some months than others. It is remarkably adaptable to a wide range of soil types as long as water logging does not occur within 1 m of the surface.

Fruits at Tropical Fruit Farm in Penang

One can find a lot of fruits at the Tropical Fruit Farm in Panang.

Hog Plum Tree With Fruits

The origin of the Hog Plum is from Central America. The fruit when ripe has a very thin tough skin with a very juicy pulp inside. The pulp is very acidic and has a sour taste. The pulp is used alongside sugar and sugarcane juice to put into jams, juices, and ice creams. This will allow the sweetness to counteract the tartness of the Hog Plum.

Picturesque Fruit Plants at Penang Fruit Farm

You can find a large variety of picturesque fruit plants and trees at the Tropical Fruit Farm of Penang.

Passion Fruit Climbers at the Penang Fruit Farm

You can find many climber vines bearing fruits at the fruit farm of Penang. Here you can see Passion fruit climbers. It is also known as Markisa (Indonesia), lilikoi (Hawaii), sweet cup (Jamaica), maracuja (Brazil), and granadilla (South Africa). The purple passion fruit is native in southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina. The yellow fruit’s origin is uncertain, it may have originated in the Amazon region of Brazil. Passion fruit belongs to the Passifloraceae family. Passion fruits are egg-shaped or round-shaped, with a structure somewhat like a watermelon. There is an inedible outer rind, that can be yellow or purple, and the edible inside, which consists of a juicy, jam-like mixture of pulp and seeds. In Western Samoa, it is grown from near sea-level up to an elevation of 600 m. The round, egg-shaped fruits usually ripen from flowering in 80 days. There are 350 varieties of passion fruit but there are mainly two types - Golden Passion Fruit can grow up to the size of an orange. It has a bright, yellow, outer rind. The more well-known, the Purple Passion Fruit, is now mainly grown in Australia. Though it’s much smaller, it has, arguably, a richer flavor and aroma.

Sour Sop

Other common names include Guanábana (Spanish), graviola (Portuguese), Brazilian pawpaw, guyabano, corossolier, guanavana, toge-banreisi, durian benggala, nangka blanda, and nangka londa. It is native to northern South America, Columbia and Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Central America, the Caribbean. Belongs to Annonaceae family. Generally a small-medium tree to 8m/25ft. The thin, inedible, leathery green skin cuts easily to yield the large mass of cream colored, fragrant, juicy, and somewhat fibrous, edible flesh, containing 30-200 black-brown seeds. In the tropics, soursops are grown from sea level to 1000m, particularly in humid regions where the tree grows particularly well. Soursops cannot tolerate standing water, and its roots are shallow, so it does not require a very deep soil base. Fruits are more or less oval or heart-shaped. Size ranges from 4 to 12 in (10-30 cm) long and up to 6 in (15 cm) in width, and the weight may be up to 4.5-6.8 kg. The fruit is compound and covered with a reticulated, but tender, many pliable "spines". Immature fruit is dark-green, becoming slightly yellowish green before the mature fruit is soft to the touch. The bark, leaves, roots, stems, fruit, and seeds have medicinal value.