Tropical Fruit
Florida’s climate gives home gardeners the opportunity to grow a surprising variety of tropical and subtropical backyard fruits.
Many are familiar, such as avocado, lime, and mango, but there are also many with strange names, shapes, and flavors, like carambola, lychee, or sapote.
Gardeners in South Florida have the biggest variety to choose from, but there are subtropical fruit that can be grown in Central Florida too. Even North Florida gardeners can grow a few in containers.
- Avocado
- Bananas
- Coffee
- Guava
- Jaboticaba
- Longan
- Loquat
- Lychee
- Mamey Sapote
- Mango
- Miracle Fruit
- Papaya
- Pineapple
- Star Fruit
- Sweetsop, Soursop, and Atemoya
- Tamarind
- Vanilla
More from UF/IFAS
- Abiu Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Achachairu (Garcinia humilis) Fruit Trees: Botany and Commercial Cultivation in South Florida–Ask IFAS
- Caimito (Star Apple) Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Canistel Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Cocoa (Chocolate Bean) Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Hand Pruning and Training of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Trees–Ask IFAS
- Jackfruit Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Maprang (Bouea macrophylla Griff.) Fruit Trees: Botany and Commercial Cultivation in South Florida–Ask IFAS
- Panama Berry Tree, Muntingia calabura–UF/IFAS Blogs Hillsborough County
- Pejibaye (Peach Palm) Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Pitaya (Dragonfruit) Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS
- Sapodilla Growing in the Florida Home Landscape–Ask IFAS