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Encyclopedia4U - List of fruits - Encyclopedia Article (528 words) |
 | Fruits of temperate climates are almost universally borne on trees or woody shrubs or lianas. |
| Many sorts of fruit on this list are gathered from the wild, just as they were in Neolithic times. |
| Fruits in this category are not hardy to extreme cold, as the preceding temperate fruits are, yet tolerate some frost and may have a modest chilling requirement. |
| Tropical fruits (2451 words) |
| for fresh tropical fruits over the current decade are expected to be favourable with the forecast compound growth rate at nearly 8 percent over the projections period for major tropical fruits. |
| Minor tropical fruits, such as lychees, durian, rambuttan, guavas and passionfruit, are traded mostly at the regional level and in smaller volumes than the major tropical fruits. |
| Estimated international demand for tropical fruits in the major developed markets is derived from import data, because all fresh fruit imports for the purpose of this analysis are assumed to be direct food use consumption as the fresh product cannot be stored over time. |
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