If you wander your local neighborhood what kind of trees do you have?
Here are a selection of my local neighborhood trees and a lot of them are fruit trees 🙂 with a few mystery trees thrown in – do you know what they are?
Papaya Trees
![Mango Tree Such a thin sparse tree...but it still produces fruit](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image17.jpg?w=525&h=372&ssl=1)
![Mango Madness How can such a small thin looking tree still produce fruit? Where there is a will, there is a way!](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image18.jpg?w=292&h=372&ssl=1)
A big thank you to Beatriz of gardeningB.com for pointing me in the right direction – these are actually Papayas not Mango as I incorrectly identified. See, I need all the help I can get 🙂Â
However, I’m going to keep this fun Mango fact here 😉 because it’s so interesting.
Mango Mystery – Solved
Mangos are distantly related to a few plants that you’d probably never guess: the cashew and pistachio.
Fig Trees
![Figs You can see why Adam and Eve used Fig Leaves to cover themselves - they're huge!](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image19.jpg?w=408&h=408&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Fig Tree A vibrant, green fig tree](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image20.jpg?w=408&h=408&crop=1&ssl=1)
Did You Know?
Fossil records date figs back to between 9400-9200 B.C.
Avocado
![Avocado They are not my favorite fruit](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image24.jpg?w=408&h=408&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Avocado Tree They are extremely popular and nice as Guacamole](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image23.jpg?w=408&h=408&crop=1&ssl=1)
Fun Avocado Fact
Avocados will not ripen on the tree. They must be picked from the tree to initiate ripening. The leaves supply a substance that prevents ripening. The best way to store avocados is to leave them on the tree; they will store for 7 months or more when left on the tree.
Now it’s your turn..
I need some help identifying what the following trees/fruit are? Any clues?
![Help? Really not sure what kind of tree this is?](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image26.jpg?w=408&h=408&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Mystery Do You Know What This Is? Is this also a Fig?](https://i0.wp.com/travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image25.jpg?w=408&h=408&crop=1&ssl=1)
and then of course there was this tree…
![Large and nicely displayed in oversized plant pots but do you know what it is?](http://travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image21-768x1024.jpg)
and this was underneath it…a good clue and useful to help identify it. Does this help?
![Can you eat this? Looks like something you would dry and put out at Christmas time.](http://travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image22-1024x768.jpg)
If you can solve the mystery, please leave a comment below.
I’ll leave you with one last photo – a collection of mini balls that were under a palm tree. They’re definitely the fruit/seed from the palm tree (usually green when still attached) but to me they look like eyeballs. I guess Hallowe’en must be on my mind, even though it’s a couple of months away, and the colors reminded me of Fall/Autumn.
![Not really eyeballs but it was such a funny collection I just had to snap a picture.](http://travellingbanana.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image27-999x1024.jpg)
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