Fruit and Spice Park

Fruit and Spice Park
Fruit and Spice Park
	; Fruit and Spice Park
Type	Municipal
Location	Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
Area	37 acres (15 ha)
Created	1945
Operated by	Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department
Website	Fruit and Spice Park

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Coordinates: 25°32′08″N 80°29′39″W / 25.5356°N 80.4942°W / 25.5356; -80.4942

The Fruit and Spice Park is a 37-acre (15 ha) botanical garden in metropolitan Miami at 24801 SW 187 Avenue, located in the rural agricultural community of the Redland, Florida, United States.

[edit] Exhibits

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. Fruits that may be poisonous if not consumed correctly, such as ackee are fenced for safety.

[edit] Facilities

Entrance requires an admission fee but the entrance has a store open to the public where many fruits from the park can be sampled for free. The store does not sell any fruit from the park, only various books and packaged spices, sauces, jams and jellies.