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Fruit and Spice Park, Homestead, Florida
December 4, 2008

Date palm
[Beautifully shaped palm tree with fronds which hang down as well as ones which are upright.]

Strawberry tree
[Tree has a main trunk with dozens of branches coming out at 45 degree angles making it a very full tree since the branches have lots of leaves.]

Sausage tree (Seed pods are shaped like sausages.)
[Tree with huge pods hanging from it. Pods resemble sausages.]

Loofah gourds hanging from the fence.
[The vine for the plant is growing on a chain-link fence. Two very large, both length and circumference, oblong gourds hang from the vine.]

Coconuts in various stages of ripeness
[Yellow and light brown coconuts hanging on the tree.]

Sapodilla-brown sugar
[Looks like two round light-brown balls about the size of a grapefruit hanging in a tree with long oval leaves.]

Pineapple plant (One growing in the upper right.)
[The plant has many long thin pointed leaves. The fruit grows near the top of these leaves and looks like someone just set a pineapple on the plant.]

Banana tree and its fruit
[Two photos stitched together with a black arrow originating on the banana bunch hanging on the left image of the full tree and extending to the point of the arrow to the close view of the bunch and its hanging flower on the right image.]

Many different types of banana trees and bananas
[Bananas hanging in the tree.]


[Green bananas hanging on a banana tree.]


[Ripe bananas hanging on a banana tree.]

Dwarf bananas
[A very long section with a red flower at the bottom hangs from a tree with dozens of small bananas growing from the section.]

Cactus blooms
[At the top of the cactus leaves are globular growths which are green on the bottom and red-orange at the top. One red-orange section has a pink extenstion at the top.]

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