USEFUL TREES WE PLANT
Avocado (Persea americana)
Avocados are a commercially valuable.
Cacao (Theobroma cacao)
Its seeds are used to make cocoa powder and chocolate.
Calabash Tree (Crescentia)
Has a hard, cannonball-like fruits, which can be hallowed and dried and used as containers.
Coffee (Coffea arabica)
Gourmet coffees are almost exclusively a high-quality, mild variety of coffee like coffea arabica.
Century (Yucca)
Edible parts include fruits, flowers, flowering stems and roots.
Cherimoya (Annona cherimola)
Mark Twain called the cherimoya "the most delicious friut known to man".
Giant Wild Lemon (Citrus limon)
A very popular commercial crop.
Leucaena (Leucaena)
The seeds can be used as beads and the trees have edible fruits.
Loquat aka Japanese Plum ........need a picture and then make a link....
Eriobotrya japonica
A commercial fruit that is a distant relative of the apple.
Macadamia (Macadamia integriffolia or tetraphylla)
The nuts are a valuable food crop.
Moringa (Moringa oleifera)
Exceptionally nutritious vegetables with a variety of potential uses including
treating malnutrition, especially among infants and nursing mothers.
Noni (Morinda citrifolia)
Bears fruit every month throughout the year.Its leaf is used in teas that aid in
digestion and help maintain normal blood sugar levels.It is also rich in
antioxidants.
Palm (Arecaceae or Palmae)
Has great economic important, its products include coconut, oil, dates,
palm syrup, ivory nuts, camauba wax, rattan cane, and raffia.
Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera)
The fruit can be used for jam or eaten right off the tree.
Soaptree (Yucca elata)
The leaves are used to make sandals,rope,dental floss,belts,cloth,basket,cords and mats.In times of drought ranchers have used the plant as an emergency food supply for cattle.
Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora)
A very popular fruit enjoyed picked off the tree or made into jam, jelly relish, pickle, juice, vinegar and distilled liquor.