Reported to be beneficial for all sorts of medical conditions:įever, constipation, arthritis, rheumatism, skin Thanks again to whoever it was at Swiss Travel Costa Rica for your help. Is used to produce annatto, a food coloring which is used in Costa RicaĪnd in the US since it is "exempt of certification" by the rules of the I am no expert and rely on visitors to this page for their assistance so thanks for your help everyone. If I had cut it open it would have been easy to deturmine which ID was right. With that degree of certainty I can't argue with his identification. "I'm 99.999.9999.99999.99999% sure that what you are displaying as a caimito is either a green cas or a green guayaba. Thanks to someone at Swiss Travel Costa Rica for your help identifying this and the next fruit. When ripe it is purple and I am told delicious. This fruit is a Cainito (Chrysophyllum cainito). Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) a.k.a. It is bitter and strong smelling but edible. They will produce a 6 to 10 inch pod with 20 to 30 beans. These are the flowers of a cocoa tree (Theobroma Cacao). Star Fruit or Carambola (Averrhoa carambola). The ones in the first picture were as hard as rock. Workers hang the bunches from chains attached to small trolleys then Monorail tracks are used to transport bunches of bananas from the Trees to prevent uprooting do to strong winds and rain softened ground. The bunches are covered with blue bags for protection from insects, Not many bananas are visible as you drive through the Orchid (Arundina graminifolia ) the blooms are at the top of 6 Others furry, some on stalks, others hung like pendants from the trees. Most had a population of insects/larva and occasionally tadpoles. It was the rainy season so each of these cups was filled with water and There were a lot of "flowers" like these.Ĭloser examination revealed that the "flowers" were leaves (bracts)
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