The Fruit Atlas

Passifloraceae · 4 fruits

The most fragrant vines in the tropics — passion fruit and her cousins.

Cactaceae · 4 fruits

Desert fruit that flowers at midnight and bleeds magenta inside.

Annonaceae · 2 fruits

The fruits that taste like dessert before you've done anything to them.

Sapindaceae · 2 fruits

Hairy, spiky or smooth on the outside — rose-perfumed jelly within.

Clusiaceae · 1 fruit

Royalty of the tropical understorey — the mangosteen family.

Myrtaceae · 2 fruits

Fruits that smell like a perfumer's garden before you've cut them.

Musaceae · 1 fruit

Forget what your supermarket banana told you was possible.

Bromeliaceae · 1 fruit

One of the few fruits that bites you back.

Arecaceae · 1 fruit

Fruits that grow on palms — snake fruit, dates, coconuts.

Rosaceae · 5 fruits

The family behind every apple, pear, plum and strawberry you've ever eaten.

Caricaceae · 1 fruit

Tropical breakfast fruit with a quietly serious digestive reputation.

Lythraceae · 1 fruit

Jewel-coloured arils, packed wall-to-wall under a leathery rind.

Oxalidaceae · 1 fruit

A five-pointed star every time you slice it.

Rutaceae · 3 fruits

The citrus dynasty — and a few unusual cousins (the kumquat, the sumo).

Anacardiaceae · 2 fruits

Mangoes, cashews, pistachios — closer cousins than you'd ever guess.

Malvaceae · 1 fruit

Where chocolate begins — the raw cacao pod, fresh and unprocessed.