Fruit and Spice Park
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The Fruit and Spice Park 32 acres (13 hectares) is a botanical garden located about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of downtown Miami, Florida at 24801 S.W. 187 Avenue, Homestead, Florida, USA. It is administered by the Miami-Dade Park & Recreation department; an admission fee is charged.
The Park contains more than 500 varieties of fruit, nut, and spice trees, including 80 plus banana varieties, 125 varieties of Mango, more than 40 varieties of grapes, 70 Bamboo varieties, plus Guava, Jackfruit, Canistel, Sapodilla, Longan, Lychee, Mamey sapote, Black Sapote ("chocolate pudding fruit"), Miracle fruit, Jaboticaba, Cecropia ("snake fingers"), coffee beans, and Wax Jambu, as well as other more exotic edibles. Visitors are free to sample fruits lying on the ground, but are not allowed to pick anything from the trees. Poisonous fruits such as Ackee are fenced for safety.
The park was first organized in the 1950s, on a site which had been a citrus orchard until just before the 1926 hurricane, when 50,000 trees were ordered burned by the citrus canker extermination crew. Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, caused extensive damage to Park gardens and buildings.
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