Various types of fruits sold at fresh market at Chiang Mai, Thailand. Thailand is blessed with over thirty types of fruit ranging from the banana to four kinds of durian. Wax Jambu fruit has a pear-shaped structure and have a thin pink skin, with crisp white tissue, which is slightly aromatic in taste and smell. Wax Jambu is native to Philippines, India, Indonesia and Malaysia and Thailand. Common names of the fruit include wax apple, love apple. The fruit is also used to add taste to salads. The season for Thailand's mangoes is around April to June. Ripe mangoes are eaten for dessert while pickles and chutney are prepared from unripe fruit. Thailand has a lot of banana varieties all with a preferred use. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant.
