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Square Watermelons
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Square Watermelons

They grow in boxes and can cost more than $100.
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Miracle Berries
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Miracle Berries

When life gives you lemons, this tropical fruit makes 'em taste like lemonade.
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Calçot
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Calçot

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.
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Bush Coconut
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Bush Coconut

All bush coconuts come with a free, juicy worm inside.
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Maine Wild Blueberries
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Maine Wild Blueberries

The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.
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Chocolate Pudding Fruit
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Chocolate Pudding Fruit

This fruit can also count as dessert.
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Jagua
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Jagua

This fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert.
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Marang
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Marang

A Filipino fruit that smells like gasoline and tastes like pears, jackfruit, and pineapple.
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Rollinia
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Rollinia

Brazil's spiky yellow fruit has lemon meringue–flavored insides.
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Engkala
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Engkala

This creamy, bright pink fruit is known as the "Borneo avocado."
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Peanut Butter Fruit
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Peanut Butter Fruit

Its pulp tastes just like the creamy spread.
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Hala Fruit
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Hala Fruit

It looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.
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Monstera Deliciosa
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Monstera Deliciosa

This fruit either burns your throat or tastes like a tropical medley.
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Olosapo
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Olosapo

In Central America, custard grows on trees.
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Cucamelon
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Cucamelon

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.
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Medlars
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Medlars

The anus-shaped fruit tastes like cinnamon applesauce.
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Gấc
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Gấc

This lucky fruit tastes best in rice.
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Coquito Nuts
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Coquito Nuts

Chile is home to very, very small coconuts.
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Pacaya
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Pacaya

These palm flower clusters resemble tentacles of baby corn.
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Jaboticaba
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Jaboticaba

The Brazilian tree gets covered by its tart purple fruit.
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Snakefruit
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Snakefruit

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.
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Achachairú
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Achachairú

Meet purple mangosteen's rare, complex cousin.
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Purén White Strawberry
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Purén White Strawberry

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.
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Pimientos de Padrón
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Pimientos de Padrón

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
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