The document discusses several exotic fruits and vegetables, including the snake fruit, pineberry, papaya, jackfruit, avocado, pitaya, zucchini, vitelotte potato, and calabash gourd. It provides details on the origin, appearance, taste, and uses of each fruit or vegetable. For example, it notes that the snake fruit has a scaly skin and white fleshy interior, while the jackfruit is widely cultivated in tropical regions and is the largest fruit from a tree.

1. Exotic fruits and vegetables
Student, Bănică Claudia-Marina
Group, 8214
Coordinating Teacher, Mihai Daniel Frumuşelu
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary
Medicine in Bucharest
Faculty of Management, Economic Engineering in
Agriculture and Rural Development

2. Exotic fruits
Snake fruit
Known as the snake fruit because of its scaly skin, the snake fruit , is a
tropical fruit popularly found in South East Asia. If you have never set
eyes on the fruit before, the white fleshy interior might come as a bit of
a surprise.
But its juicy and delicious taste will have you asking for more as soon
as your senses register the delight. It is for good reason that it is
considered among the best palm fruits to eat raw.
Pineberry
The pineberry is a white strawberry with a pineapple-like flavor, white
coloring, and red seeds.
Pineberries come from breeding strawberry stocks from Chile and
Virginia.

3. Papaya
Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from southern Mexico
and neighboring Central America.
The fruit is a large berry and it is ripe when it feels soft and its skin has
attained an amber to orange color.
The ripe fruit of the papaya is usually eaten raw, without skin or seeds. The
smell of ripe, fresh papaya flesh can strike some people as unpleasant.
The black seeds of the papaya are edible and have a sharp, spicy taste.
Jackfruit
Jackfruit is commonly used in South and Southeast Asian cuisines.
The ripe and unripe fruit and seeds are consumed.
The jackfruit tree is a widely cultivated throughout tropical regions of the
world.
It is the national fruit of Bangladesh and it is also known as the largest fruit
from a tree.

4. Avocado
The avocado is a tree, long thought to have originated in South Central Mexico.
The fruit of the plant, also called an avocado (or avocado pear or alligator pear),
is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed.
Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical
and Mediterranean climates throughout the world. They have a green-skinned,
fleshy body that may be pear-shaped, egg-shaped, or spherical.
Pitaya
A pitaya or pitahaya is the fruit of several different cactus species indigenous to
the Americas.
The dragon fruit is cultivated in Southeast Asia, Florida,
the Caribbean, Australia, and throughout tropical and subtropical world regions.
These fruits are commonly known in English as "dragon fruit", reflecting its
vernacular Asian names. The names pitahaya and pitaya derive from Mexico,
and pitaya roja in Central America and northern South America, possibly
relating to pitahaya for names of tall cacti species with flowering fruit.

5. Exotic vegetables
Zucchini
The zucchini is a summer squash which can reach nearly 1 metre in length, but is usually
harvested when still immature at about 15 to 25 cm. A zucchini is a thin-skinned cultivar of
what in Britain and Ireland is referred to as a marrow. In South Africa, a zucchini is known as
a baby marrow.
It can be dark or light green. A related hybrid, the golden zucchini, is a deep yellow or orange
color.
In a culinary context, the zucchini is treated as a vegetable; it is usually cooked and presented
as a savory dish or accompaniment.
The zucchini, like all squash, has its ancestry in the Americas. However, the varieties of
squash typically called "zucchini" were developed in northern Italy in the second half of
the 19th century, many generations after the introduction of cucurbits from the Americas in
the early 16th century.

6. Vitelotte
Vitelotte, (also called Vitelotte noire, Négresse or Truffe de Chine),is a gourmet
French variety of blue-violet potato. It has been cultivated in France at least since
the early 19th century.
Vitelotte' potatoes have a dark blue, almost black, skin and dark violet-blue flesh;
they have a characteristic nutty flavour and smell of chestnuts. The colour is
retained in cooking, and is due to natural pigments in the anthocyanin group
of flavonoids. The plants mature late and, compared to modern varieties, are
relatively low-yielding. The tubers are elongated with sunken eyes; they are thick-
skinned, and thus keep well.
Calabash
Calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, also known by many other
names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is
a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed
as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil. When it
is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh.
Calabash fruits have a variety of shapes: they can be huge and rounded, small
and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, and they can grow to be over a
metre long. Rounder varieties are typically called calabash gourds. The gourd
was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but
for use as containers.

7. Bibliography
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salak
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineberry
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitelotte
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash