This South American fruit is well known throughout the tropics. It is not fussy on the soil quality, and produces fruit year after year. The fragrant greenish white to white flower, 2.5 cm or more across, bears numerous yellow stamens. The fruits are variable in shape, size and colour being globular, ovoid, or pear shaped from 3 to 15cm in length and the skin may be greenish white, yellowish or pink. Upon ripening, the guava becomes soft and juicy and is an excellent source of C vitamin.

Very nice little shrub that produces 5-6cm edible pomegranates! These robust shrubs are beautiful in bloom. Will tolerate light frosts - it will behave deciduously.

Bushy shrub, usually to no more than 6m and can spread to 6-8m and can be trained as a hedge. When mature is somewhat hardy and able to survive short frosts but may defoliate in prolonged cold spells. It has pretty white-pink flowers in abundance that produce oblong berries, which ripen from green to yellow, then red. Best of all, the berries can be steeped in water to make a refreshing, lemonade-like drink.

This annual to shrubby perennial from the lowlands of Ecuador has spiny stems and leaves and can grow to 1.5m. Its beautiful purple flowers become unusual large orange nipple shaped fruit, 3-6cm long and 3-5cm in diameter. The fruit is poisonous and should not be consumed but has medicinal uses especially in homeopathic remedies.

An improved version of the American classic! Unlike wild huckleberries the very dark purple berries can be eaten fresh as well as cooked. Impressively heavy yields from container-sized plants. The taste has a hint of liquorice. Very easy to grow – treat them like chilli plants. Just 75 days to harvest.

Lost Fruit of the Incas - this beautiful plant is worth growing for its large, velvety, purple veined foliage alone. The fruit is bright orange, about the size of a large cherry tomato and is covered in small hairs that rub off when ripe. The pulp is green, tastes like a lemony pineapple and is considered a delicacy in South America. Produces fruit in its first year in good conditions, harvest autumn/winter. Good in containers. Will survive light frosts. Some plants produce spikes along the ribs.

The plant is a herbaceous shrub up to 2m high, with downy stems, densely white-hairy twigs, and ovate leaves. The fruit may be round, oblong or conical-oval, with bluntly rounded apex; 2-10 cm long, and up to 6 cm wide at the base. The thin, tough skin is coated with a slightly prickly, peach-like fuzz until the fruit is fully ripe, then it is smooth, deep purple-red, and has a bitter taste.