Fruits Educational Posters, Art Prints & Charts
for classrooms, restaurants and cafes.

Fruits of the Season

also summer, autumn and winter fruits in set

Citrus Fruits / Agrumes
orange, tangerine, grapefruit, kumquat, lime, lemon, ugli

• The Great Citrus Book: A Guide With Recipes

Modern Apples

Two Dozen Varieties of Modern Apples with Illustrations: Spingold, Honeycrisp, Nova Spy, Scarlet OHara Apples, Shizuki, Suncrisp, King Cole, Stellar, Cortland, Razor Russet, Florina, Braeburn, Orin, Elstar, Enterprise, Tumanga, Sansa, Fuji, Gala Apples, Yoko, Idared, Empire, Mutsu, Freyberg, Sweet Sixteen, Geneva, Macoun, Ginger Gold, Nured Delicious, Jonagold, Sierra Beauty, Crab Apple, Liberty, Senshu, Goldrush

• The Apple Grower: Guide for the Organic Orchardist
• Apple computer logo
• Adam & Eve print
• The Color “Red” posters

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, an apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia, eight folio volumes with more than 1,000 hand-colored engravings of several thousand plants.

Stone fruits are known in botany as a drupe: a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell (the pit or stone).

Apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, and plums are examples of stone fruits.

February is National Cherry Month, July is National Peach Month.

Botanically grapes are a true berry, a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. They grow on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis.

Grapes can be purple or white, and grown to be eaten raw or preserved as jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, drugs, wine, grape seed extracts, and grape seed oil. A dried grape is called a raisin.

The symbolic meaning of grapevines and grapes are related to Dionysus and Christ such as blessing and fertility, victory over death and the joy of heaven as the blood of Christ in the Mass. The first recorded miracle of Jesus was turning water into wine for the Wedding Feast.

Writer John Steinbeck used the symbolism of grapes as the hope for a new beginning in his novel The Grapes of Wrath, the title phrase being borrowed from Julia Ward Howe's lyrics of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and in turn inspired by the Book of Revelation 14:19-20, an apocalyptic appeal to divine justice and deliverance from oppression in the final judgment.

Harvesting grapes is hard work - for every bottle of wine produced a farmworker picks and carries hundreds of pounds of grapes and is paid by the piece (number of pounds). We laughed at Lucy ...

Dates, a staple food of the Middle East for thousands of years, are believed to have originated around the Persian Gulf. Dates have been cultivated possibly as early as 4000 BCE from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt and are an important crop in Iraq, Arabia, and north Africa. In Islamic countries, dates and yogurt or milk are a traditional first meal when the sun sets during Ramadan, and in the Christian religion date palm leaves are used for Palm Sunday celebrations.

• Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and the Quran

Coconuts are the seed of the coconut palm, and native to tropical regions. The white flesh is edible and if soaked in water will form what is known as coconut milk; oil from coconuts can be used for cooking and making margarine (butter substitute).

The word coconut was from the Portuguese traders who named it for a fairy tale hairy monster used to frighten children, “Coco”; the English added “nut”. The Indian name in Sanskrit, kalpa vriksha, translates as “the tree which provides all the necessities of life”; the coconut is known in Malay as pokok seribu guna, “the tree of a thousand uses”; in the Philippines, the coconut is called the “Tree of Life”.

• Coconut Lover's Cookbook

Varieties of Pecan and Walnut - Major, Burkett, Warrick, Havens, and Owens.

The pecan tree is a variety of hickory native to south-central North America.

• Umm, pecans for pie and pralines, but how about substituting finely chopped pecans for some of the bread crumps for crusted fish or chicken?
• The Nut Gourmet: Delicious Plant-Based Recipes Valuable Nutritional Information
• Pecan: Texas State Tree
• Walnut: Missouri State Tree Nut

The olive fruit, olive oil and olive leaves from the small tree (Olea europaea) native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, have been important foods for millennia, as well as used for medicine, fuel for lamps, and religious purposes. Contemporary studies show that oiive oil has considerable health benefits. The olive branch is a symbol of peace from the time of Noah and the Great Flood.

• Olive Oil - book

The pineapple (Ananas comosus), a tropical plant and fruit, is native to Uruguay, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Paraguay. The English name “pineapple” comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone.

Spread around the world, pineapples are now a major agricultural crop in the Hawaiian Islands.

Artist and naturalist Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, lived in Suriname c. 1700 where she studied insects and plants in great detail and then illustrated them with paints and engravings.

• The Pineapple: The King of Fruits

Cashews, nuts in the culinary sense, are botanically a seed. Cashews are native to Brazil and were spread around the world by Portuguese explorers.

• cashew illustration

French decorative page showing ways to cultivate fruit trees.

Did you know? “Verger” = grove, orchard.

• trees posters

Wild Blueberries, Maine, Photographic Print

Wild blueberries, the state berry of Maine, is still harvested by hand-rakes on the hilly and rocky terrain where many of wild blueberry patches are found.