Rambutan Fruit, Fruits name starts with the letter R

Rambutan Fruit

Rambutan [The “Hairy” Fruit]

Scientific Name:  Nephelium lappaceum (Sapindaceae).

Origin: A native of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Other names: Ramboutan, ramboutanier, ramboetan, ramboostan, shao tzu, chom chom, vai thieu, ser mon, chle sao mao.

Distribution:  Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Burma, SriLanka, Central America, Philippines, Hawaii, Madagascar, Africa, Cambodia and Caribbean islands also produce rambutan.

This fruit colour may also be orange, red or yellow

There are other local names in the various dialects of Southeast Asia and the East Indies.   Rambutan is commonly marketed all over Malaysia, Indonesia and Southeast Asian countries and is recognized by different names in certain countries.

The rambutan is a medium sized tree producing a red, orange or yellow fruit round to oval in shape. Its thin, leathery rind is covered with tubercles from each of which extends a soft, fleshy, red, pinkish, or yellow spine The fruit is oval-shaped and approximately 1 - 2 inches long. It is an evergreen tree growing to a height of 5–10 m (grafted tree).

Rambutan fruit is a tropical fruit that is known as one of the best fruit from Southeast Asian that has a delicious taste and benefits of good health to the body. Rambutan fruit inIndonesia, Philippines, and Malay literally means hairy caused by hair that covers this fruit. The fruit is usually sold fresh, used in making jams and jellies, or canned.

The term rambutan is derived from the Malay word “hair”, which describes the numerous, characterizing, long, soft, red or red and green colored spine-like protuberances on the surface of the peel. The pericarp of this attractive oval-shaped fruit can be red, orange, or yellow in color and is removable by a twist of the hands. The edible, pearlish white, juicy, crispy, sweet and sub-acid flavored flesh conceals a single seed with a thin, fibrous seed coat.

The rambutan is not a well-known fruit, but it has great potential for its establishment and development because of the good agro-ecological conditions for its production.

The rambutan skin, which may be yellow, orange or red when ripe, is covered with many curved or fleshy whiskers, giving the fruit a hairy appearance. The fruit is usually oval to round and are borne on bunches. The skin separates easily from the flesh. Rambutan flesh is firm, white and translucent and is sweet and juicy. Preferred varieties have flesh that does not stick to the skin of the seed.

Fruits name starts with the letter " U "

Ugli fruit

This is a fruit of many names - Uniq Fruit, Unique Fruit, and Ugli Fruit.

Ugli fruits are also called “ Exotic tangelos ”.

In Jamaicathey pronounce it as “hugli” or “hoo-glee” and worldwide the fruit is called “uh-glee.”

This is a Jamaican citrus fruit that was created by hybridizing a grapefruit with a tangerine. Its name derives from the unsightly appearance of its rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow skin that is loosely wrapped around an orange pulpy citrus fruit inside. The green surface blemishes turn orange or yellow when the fruit is ripe.  Ugli fruits are larger than grapefruits and they have fewer seeds. Ugli fruits are also called “exotic tangelos”.

UGLI is the registered trade mark under which Cabel Hall Citrus Ltd.  Headquartered in George Town, Grand Cayman, in the Cayman Islands, markets its brand of tangelos from Jamaica. This tangelo is a variety of citrus fruit grown exclusively in Jamaica and exported by Trout Hall Ltd. to markets all over the world. It was discovered growing wild in Jamaicaover 80 years ago and has been developed by the family of the owners of Trout Hall Ltd. into the commercial variety now in production. The original tree is believed to have been a hybrid formed from the Seville orange, the grapefruit and the tangerine (mandarin) families. Since 1924 when it was first discovered several improved scions have been used by Trout Hall Ltd. to produce the current variety which is so popular.

The fruit is large, ranging in diameter from 10 cm to 15 cm.   The colour varies from green to greenish-yellow, to yellow, and some even orange. It is widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits which have tough aromatic rinds. The taste is more likely to be a lemon-tangerine hybrid.

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