I went on a short trip to Brazil (not fruit specific) over the last 10 days that was mostly to do some skateboarding stuff, and to visit old friends. The first few days were in Maresias, then down to Florianopolis, and then back in São Paulo for the day. Though I'd been to Brazil many times before (this was my 9th trip) this was the first one where I was looking intently for fruit stuff, and it did not disappoint. The photos are a bit out of order, but still thought I'd share.
This is a 60 year old + Paulista that was planted by my friend's parents. He had fond memories of climbing it to gather fruit. I have never seen a bigger jabo, it was probably around 3 storeys tall, and the scaffold branches up top were insanely thick.
The trunk of said jabo
Old avocado of some type at church where we hit the farmer's market, unfortunately no fruit of mention available
Red jabo in someone's yard on the way to the beach in Florianopolis
Large mango in São Paulo at my friend's dad's place, it was loaded with fruit but they say major worm problems and don't get any edible fruit
Some type of native guava planted by the bus station, lots of these around in Florianopolis
Photos of the leaves and flowers of said guava
Jatai stingless bee entrance to hive, I was able to acquire some honey from jatai, really strange taste almost medicinal
Along this walk over the dunes to the beach, there were wild guava "araça" species everywhere
Acerola was in season, and the size of their fruit makes ours look pitiful
The new airport at Florianopolis was probably the nicest airport I've ever been to, and they had massive sabara's planted throughout the courtyard, installed as mature specimens
Wild guava growing out of a sewer grate on the local hills
Some kind of campomanesia by the looks of it
Not sure on the cultivar of this jabo, but good size!
Red jabo with a nice size trunk, about $30 USD
Wild guavas all over, this was on the island of Campeche which had been logged and burnt, so it was second generation forest
Jabo caipirinha made with sabara, seeds, skin and all - heavy on the tannins
Good size yellow jabo with some passionfruit on it
A grove of massive sabaras in São Paulo
An unknown "araça" which they couldn't remember if was red or yellow, my guess was strawberry guava of some kind
40 year old sabara in my friend's yard in SP
Some type of inga in the woods
Large coffee trees outside "Cafe Cultura" which is a coffee chain down there
That large guava by the bus station was flowering
Checking for some jabos
Another very nice size yellow jabo, which all Brazilians adore and think is one of the best tasting fruits
Red jabo outside the laundry joint on the street!
Stingless bee apiary
Some kind of jabo outside a clothing store, fruit was not great
Tamarillo
20' tall pitanga
40-50' pitanga
Absolute honker of a yellow jabo
Frozen sabara pre-caipirinha
Nice rack of coffee fruit coming in
Grafted red jabo at my friend's pool
A whole street row of red jabo
Jabos are used all over in architectural settings
Pitanga and jaboticaba caipirinhas on Costa da Lagoa in Floripa
Wild guava growing out of a sewer
One of the wild beach guavas growing in the dunes
Massive acerola trees out there all over
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