Tropicals tend to connotate a romantic, sensual "garden of eden" . The word tropical refers to the tropics, which is the area of earth centered on the equator and limited in the North by the Tropic of Cancer and in the south by the Tropic of Capricorn. This tropical zone stretches from 23.4 º North latitude to 23.4 º South latitude. I have divided my website in a part with ‘tropical fruits’ and a part with ‘other fruits’.

Tropical fruits are those that have their origin in the tropics and require a rather tropical or subtropical climate; they don't tolerate frost.

Other fruits are the rest, which usually grow in more temperate climates.

Some tropical fruits are also grown in warmer areas outside the tropics, while many of the temperate fruits can also be found in the tropics, especially in cooler mountain or hill areas.

There are hundreds of edible tropical fruits.

The origin of the actual fruit has been the results of the exploration of the new world. During the period of mostly European exploration in Asia, many of the explorers also took samples of the fruits and growing materials to some of Caribbean, Central and South American countries they held as colonies.

This greatly expanded the availability of fruit from a more diverse production base.