Looking for a list of all fruit names in English? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve listed out the most common fruits in the English language with pictures so you can help learn them.
Types of Fruits
Fruits can be classified using many different systems depending on the subject people are discussing and the person’s background. Some classification methods are highly technical, but in this article, we will focus on those you are most likely to encounter in everyday life or when studying below a collegiate level.
Possible fruit categories include:
- Accessory
- Achene
- Aggregate
- Berry
- Bush
- Caryopsis
- Citrus
- Drupe
- Legume
- Multiple
- Nut
- Orchard
- Simple
- Tree
- Vine
- Vineyard
List of All Fruit Names (A to Z)
Some of the names listed here may sound foreign, but American English is an adaptive language that regularly adopts words from other tongues. Depending on what region you live in, all of these fruits are available in the U.S.
A
African Medlar
Alibertia
Apple
Apricot
Araza
Avocado
B
Bael Fruit
Banana
Barbados Cherry
Barberry
Bell Pepper
Bignay
Bilberry
Biriba
Black Sapote
Blackberry
Blackcurrant
Blueberry
Boysenberry
Breadfruit
C
Calabash
Canary Melon
Cantaloupe
Cape Gooseberry
Casaba
Ceylon Gooseberry
Chalta
Champedak
Charantais
Cherry
Christmas Melon
Clementine
Coconut
Cranberry
Crenshaw
Cucumber
Currants
Custard Apple
D
Date
Dragon Fruit
Durian
E
Eggfruit
Eggplant
Elderberry
Elephant Fruit
Emu Apple
European Pear
F
Feijoa
Fig
G
Galia
Gandaria
Genipap
Giant Granadilla
Golden Apple
Grape
Grapefruit
Green Pepper
Guava
H
Hog Plum
Honeydew
I
Ice Apple
Ice Cream Bean
Indian Gooseberry
Indian Jujube
Indian Mango
Ita Palm
J
Jaboticaba
Jackfruit
Jamaica Cherry
K
Kechapi
Kepel
Ketupa
Kiwano
Kiwi Fruit
Kumquat
L
Leech Lime
Lemon
Lime
Loganberry
Loquat
Lucuma
Lychee
M
Malay Apple
Mamey Apple
Mamey Sapote
Mandarin
Mango
Mangosteen
Melon-Pear
Minneola
Monkey Bread
Morinda
Mountain Soursop
Musk Melon
N
Nance
Nangka
Nashi Pear
Nectarine
Net Melon
O
Ogen Melon
Olive
Orange
Otaheite Gooseberry
P
Papaya
Passion Fruit
Peach
Peach Palm
Pear
Persian Melon
Persimmon
Philippine Rose Apple
Pineapple
Pitahaya
Plum
Pomegranate
Prickly Pear
Pummelo
Q
Quandong
Quince
R
Rambai
Rambutan
Raspberry
Rose Apple
Russian Melon
S
Sala
Salak
Sansapote
Santoli
Sapodilla
Satsuma
Satsuma
Sea Grape
Sharlyn
Soncoya
Soursop
Star Apple
Star Fruit
Star Nut Palm
Strawberry
Sugar Apple
Surinam Cherry
Sweet Granadilla
Sweet Melon
Sweet Pepper
Sweetsop
T
Tamarillo
Tangelo
Tangerine
Tomato
Tree Tomato
U
Ugli
V
Velvet Tamarind
Voavanga
W
Water Apple
Watermelon
Wax Melon
Winter Melon
Wood Apple
X
Xigua
Z
Zucchini
Fruit Names In English With Pictures
A
African Medlar
The African medlar is native to eastern and southern Afrotropic regions but is now grown in Florida and parts of Texas. The fruit has a sweet-sour taste and mealy texture similar to a pear.
Alibertia
Alibertias grow best in moist tropical climates, but cultivation is possible in subtropical regions. Its fruits have a taste very similar to a sweet quince and are very nutrient-dense.
Apple
Apples are one of the world’s favorite fruits and are grown on every continent except for Antarctica. Juicy and delicious, they are highly nutritious.
Apricot
Apricots come in many varieties, and it seems that each one has its unique taste. They can range from slightly to sugary sweet. People typically eat apricots fresh, but the dried fruit retains much of its flavor and nutrition.
Araza
The fruit of the araza tree is rarely eaten fresh due to its high acidity, but food companies process the fruit into several juice blends and candies.
Avocado
Avocados are smoothed skin fruits commonly used in Mexican and South American cuisine. Whether added to sweet or savory dishes, people consider avocados taste one of the most refreshing available.
B
Bael Fruit
Bael fruit is native to India and traditionally eaten fresh, dried, or drank as a juice. Fusion chefs in the U.S. are significantly expanding their uses.
Banana
Bananas are one of America’s and the world’s favorite fruits. People love their sweet taste and creamy texture and use them in a wide variety of ways.
Barbados Cherry
The Barbados cherry is a small round fruit with a succulent pulp surrounding three seeds. The most remarkable thing about the Barbados cherry is its flavor is a Cherry Starburst Fruit Chew.
Barberry
Barberry fruits grow in clusters on a thorny shrub of the same name. People used barberries as a sour culinary ingredient before lemons became widely available.
Bell Pepper
People usually consider bell peppers to be a vegetable, but in truth, they are fruit. The flavor of bell peppers can go from bitter to sweet, depending on the ripeness of the fruit.
Bignay
Bignay is a small slick skinned berry-like fruit that closely resembles crabapples in appearance and taste.
Bilberry
People often refer to bilberries as Europen blueberries, and they do look very similar to blueberries. However, bilberries are highly acidic, and their taste is very different.
Biriba
Biriba fruits have a greenish-brown leathery skin covering a juicy white pulp. Slightly sweet the biriba is eaten fresh, and natives in Peru use its juice to make wine.
Black Sapote
People refer to black sapote as chocolate pudding fruit because the fruit’s flesh is dark brown to black and does indeed taste like chocolate pudding.
Blackberry
When blackberries are ripe, they are sweet and juicy with a mild tartness and earthy undertone. Otherwise, they can be pretty sour or even bitter. Some people prefer slightly underripe blackberries for making jellies and jams.
Blackcurrant
Blackcurrants are well suited to growing in the northern regions of the United States. They withstand cooler temperatures well but are sensitive to overheating.
Blueberry
Blueberries are one of America’s favorite fruits. People often describe their taste as having the sweetness of red grapes combined with the tartness of green grapes.
Boysenberry
Boysen berries are man-made berries developed by crossbreeding blackberries, loganberries, and raspberries. Rudolph Boysen created them in the 1920s.
Breadfruit
People describe the taste of breadfruit as a very sweet cross between bananas and honeydew melon.
C
Calabash
Calabash has a light green smooth skin and an exceedingly mild flavor similar to immature guava and pineapple.
Canary Melon
Canary melons have pale yellow skin and shape very much like a football. The taste of the canary melon is mildly tangy and very sweet.
Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe is an orange-fleshed member of the rockmelon family. People generally eat them by simply slicing, scooping out the seeds, and consuming raw.
Cape Gooseberry
Cape gooseberries are small yellow fruits that grow inside a husk, much like tomatillos. They have a tangy-sweet flavor that pairs well with honey or stevia glaze.
Casaba
Casaba melons can weigh 3-8 pounds and have wrinkled corrugated skin. They have a musky, sweet flavor with just the essence of a cucumber taste.
Ceylon Gooseberry
A small (0.5-1 inch) berry with fuzzy bitter skin, Ceylon gooseberries rarely get eaten fresh. The majority of those produced each year find their way into commercially produced jams and jellies.
Chalta
Also known as elephant apples due to their large size, chaltas have greenish-yellow skin and reach up to 5 inches across. They are used to make pickled chutney, jams, and juices.
Champedak
A tropical fruit native to Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia, chempedak is kin to jackfruit and has a comparable taste.
Charantais
Also called French cantaloupes, charantais are softball-sized melons with a thin green rine and pink to orange flesh. Their taste is much like cantaloup but more intense.
Cherry
One of the most recognizable fruits in the world, cherries come in many varieties ranging in taste from tart to super sweet.
Christmas Melon
Christmas melons, sometimes called Santa Claus melons, look very much like watermelons with rough skin. However, their inner flesh is pale, and they have a taste closer to that of cantaloupes.
Clementine
Clementines are a mand-made hybrid between a mandarin orange and a sweet orange. They are typically juicy and sweet, with a taste closer to a tangerine than an orange.
Coconut
One of the most useful fruits on our list, coconuts provide food, shelter, furniture, drink, and medicine too much of the world. The U.N. estimates that farmers harvest over 50 billion coconuts each year.
Cranberry
Cranberries naturally grow in lowland marshes and bogs but have been cultivated since the 1700s. The majority of cranberries harvested each year get turned into juice or craisins.
Crenshaw
Winter melons with long shelf lives, Crenshaws have green and gold skin, Salmon-colored flesh, and a sweet floral flavor.
Cucumber
Cucumbers are long cylindrical fruits that grow on running vines. Most people classify cucumbers into three categories; pickling, slicing, and burpless.
Currants
True currants are small berries that grow on the Ribes family of flowering shrubs. They can range in color from deep purple to translucent white and have a rich berry flavor.
Custard Apple
Custard Apples are some of the oddest fruits we know. Mature specimens can be as small as 2.5 inches or as large as 5. They have no definite shape and can be found oblong, spherical, heart-shaped, or weird and lumpy.
D
Date
People in North Africa and the Middle East consider dates to be a staple. They use them in a variety of dishes, eat them dried and fresh. Dates are high in sugars but also in iron.
Dragon Fruit
Dragon fruit is a tropical fruit that has been gaining in popularity. Highly unique in appearance and taste, dragon fruits have a flavor that is a melding of kiwi, watermelon, and pear.
Durian
If you are going to eat durian, taste it before you smell it. Durian has a sweet tropical flavor but smells like dirty feet.
E
Eggfruit
Eggfruit is bright yellow and teardrop-shaped. Its name comes from the texture of its meat which is much like the yolk of a hardboiled egg.