Melicoccus bijugatus (Spanish lime) is a tropical fruit with notable cultural value, rich in minerals and bioactive compounds ...

Costco is now stocking exotic fruits like mangosteens, rambutans and baby guavas. Here's how to pick, eat and enjoy these tropical treats like a pro.

But for other vegetables, "the growing season is just not long enough or we don’t have enough heat units because a lot of these are tropical vegetables," he says.

Over the past four decades, the innovations led to the creation of a tropical vegetable seed industry geared toward small-holder farmers now spreading into Asia, Africa and Latin America. It's ...