The avocado or aguacate tree grows 30 to 60 feet tall and has a trunk width of 1 to 2 feet. The trees in Puerto Rico produce fruit with smooth skin.
Coffee grows as a medium -sized shrub that has berries whose seeds are harvested as coffee beans. It grows well as a houseplant and produces berries all year.
This palm tree reaches heights of over 50 feet. The coconut has a hard shell with white pulp on the inside, which some say has medical properties. Coconut water makes a delicious drink.
The sweet fruit of the guava or guayaba makes delicious desserts and also has a high content of pectin, which aids in digestion. The fruit itself varies in shape and can be round or oval.
Many residents of Puerto Rico have their own mango trees. The fruit tastes best when picked ripe off the tree. It is one of the oldest cultivated fruits, documented over 4,000 years ago in South Asia.
Papaya, or lechoza, is a stumpy, tree-like plant that grows to 30 feet tall. The fruit is oblong and heavy and is ripe when the skin turns orange and feels soft when squeezed.
Known both for its fruit and its medicinal values, passion fruit is a round or oval shape and is ripe when the skin turns purple. Inside, the fruit is filled with seeds. The fruit is also known as maracuya.
Many other fruit trees grow in Puerto Rico. The pineapple, or pina, bears fruit on a plant 3 to 4 feet tall and adorned with trough-shaped leaves. Another is quenepas, a tree that grows to over 100 feet tall and belongs to the soapberry family and produces fruit with green skin and pink flesh.
Jobo, also called the Spanish plum or yellow mombin, has leathery skin with a pulp both sweet and acidic.
