Abstract:
Fruits from America provides an ethnobotanical inventory of the fruits
found in the Americas. More than 100 different fruits compose the
offer of the traditional markets of the continent and the present
inventory includes more than 1100 native American fruits, at all
stages of domestication, some still collected in the wild,
... while some
of their successful relatives are cultivated intensively. Native
fruits present unique opportunities to widen or re-conquer domestic
markets, to diversify agricultural production and for the sustainable
development of particular areas, as the fragile ecosystems of
inter-Andean valleys or the Amazon.
The recovery of information dispersed in the "gray literature" and in
anthropological or ethnobotanical publications is the first step to
put the fruit diversity at work for human development. It is hoped
that this inventory will contribute to this task. To answer the
growing interest of the American public, growers, investors,
scientists, and governments, in their native fruit diversity, the
CIRAD-FLHOR/IPGRI Project for Neotropical Fruits has started to gather
the available information in this inventory. This list of more than
1100 species - 1128 have been listed so far in our inventory - is
distributed among 66 families and 285 genera.
Data link:
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/
Information obtained from the Fruits from America Home Page. 
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