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Cactus Pear
Opuntia ficus-indica
A magenta-fleshed prickly cactus fruit (also called prickly pear or tuna) with a sweet melon-watermelon flavor — heavily harvested in Mexico, Sicily, and the American Southwest.
This page lists fruits that end with R. 8 fruits are detailed below. Each entry below is a doorway into a full profile — not just a name on a list.
List of Fruits That End With R
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Carolina Reaper
Capsicum chinense
A bred-for-extreme chili pepper that held the Guinness record as the world's hottest from 2013 to 2023, with an averaged 1.6 million Scoville heat units.
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Chile Pepper
Capsicum (genus, multiple species)
A diverse family of fiery fruits from the Capsicum genus — used fresh, dried, smoked, ground, and fermented across nearly every world cuisine.
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Coco-de-Mer
Lodoicea maldivica
The largest seed in the plant kingdom — a giant Seychelles double-coconut weighing up to 25 kg, so rare that each individual fruit is government-tracked.
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Medlar
Mespilus germanica
An ancient European fruit that must be eaten after it has partially rotted (bletting) — small, brown, and unprepossessing, with a sweet, apple-butter-like flesh consumed only after frost has softened it; beloved in medieval Europe, nearly forgotten today.
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Nashi Pear
Pyrus pyrifolia
The Asian pear — round, apple-shaped, with golden-yellow skin and exceptionally crisp, juicy, grainy white flesh; doesn't soften like European pears but is eaten firm and crunchy, with a clean sweet flavour.
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Paradise Pear
Pyrus communis
A Russian heritage cultivar of small ornamental-style pears, often used for preserves and country-style cookery, prized for hardiness in cold climates.
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Pear
Pyrus communis (European); Pyrus pyrifolia (Asian)
A pome fruit of the rose family — closely related to apples but with grittier flesh and a teardrop shape, with thousands of varieties and a unique post-harvest ripening behavior.
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