Fruits are unique in so many ways, including how they taste and look. They also have a wide variety of names. Some fruits have simple names like “apple,” while others have names that are much longer and harder to say. But, which fruit has the longest name you can find?
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- The fruit with the longest name is the Bob Gordon American elderberry. It has a name with 29 characters, if you count the spaces. This fruit is a special type of American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis L.), which is a kind of bush that grows in North America.
Even though the Bob Gordon American elderberry has the longest name, there are other fruits with names that are quite long too:
- In second place with 23 characters, we find the Broadleaf bramble fruit. This term covers the edible fruit from different bramble plants, which are part of the Rubus genus. Some examples of broadleaf bramble fruits are blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries, and dewberries.
- The Chocolate pudding fruit also has 23 characters and ties for second place. This sweet fruit is from the sapodilla tree, known scientifically as Pouteria sapota. It’s a native fruit to Central America and is named after its brown, creamy center that tastes like chocolate pudding.
- Next on the list with a 22 character name is the Pourouma cecropiifolia, also known as the Amazon grape. This interesting tropical fruit from the Amazon rainforest in South America looks like tiny grapes and is both sour and sweet.
- With 18 characters in its name, Lagenaria siceraria, or calabash gourd, comes next. This unusual fruit, which is shaped like a bottle, originated in Africa and is now grown in hot places all over the world. When it’s young, you can eat the white flesh inside as a vegetable. When it’s older and the outside is hard, people use it to make things like bowls and musical instruments.
- Last in our list of long fruit names is the Chinese gooseberry at 18 characters. Most people know it as the kiwifruit. It’s a furry, green fruit first grown in China and then in New Zealand, where it was called the Chinese gooseberry. Later, it became famous around the world as the kiwifruit.
While many fruits have quick, easy, one-word names like pear, peach, or mango, there are several with surprisingly long names. The longest of them all is the Bob Gordon American elderberry. Yet, other fruits with less common, lengthy names follow closely behind.
