Wheel of Fruits: Spin 83 Fruits and See Which Are Berries

Spin one of 83 fruits and the card says what kind of fruit it is to a botanist, with one fact about it.

Wheel of Fruits: Spin 83 Fruits and See Which Are Berries

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Spin 1 · number 54

Kiwano

A pepo, the melon kind of berry. Also called the horned melon for its spines: orange skin outside, soft lime-green flesh inside. Native to southern Africa. Latin name: Cucumis metuliferus.

Every spin uses the whole wheel.

83 fruits on the wheel.

Numbers on the wheel

  1. Strawberry
  2. Blueberry
  3. Raspberry
  4. Blackberry
  5. Cranberry
  6. Black currant
  7. Red currant
  8. Gooseberry
  9. Bilberry
  10. Lingonberry
  11. Huckleberry
  12. Mulberry
  13. Boysenberry
  14. Loganberry
  15. Cloudberry
  16. Black raspberry
  17. Orange
  18. Lemon
  19. Lime
  20. Grapefruit
  21. Clementine
  22. Tangerine
  23. Mandarin
  24. Blood orange
  25. Satsuma
  26. Pomelo
  27. Kumquat
  28. Yuzu
  29. Key lime
  30. Meyer lemon
  31. Tangelo
  32. Buddha's hand
  33. Peach
  34. Nectarine
  35. Plum
  36. Cherry
  37. Apricot
  38. Sour cherry
  39. Damson
  40. Greengage
  41. Apple
  42. Pear
  43. Asian pear
  44. Quince
  45. Loquat
  46. Medlar
  47. Watermelon
  48. Cantaloupe
  49. Honeydew
  50. Canary melon
  51. Crenshaw melon
  52. Piel de Sapo
  53. Oriental melon
  54. Kiwano
  55. Banana
  56. Pineapple
  57. Mango
  58. Papaya
  59. Coconut
  60. Guava
  61. Passionfruit
  62. Dragon fruit
  63. Lychee
  64. Rambutan
  65. Longan
  66. Star fruit
  67. Jackfruit
  68. Breadfruit
  69. Durian
  70. Açaí
  71. Soursop
  72. Cherimoya
  73. Plantain
  74. Tamarind
  75. Grape
  76. Kiwifruit
  77. Fig
  78. Pomegranate
  79. Persimmon
  80. Date
  81. Avocado
  82. Prickly pear
  83. Jujube

Results

  1. 1. Kiwano

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Wheel of Fruits: Spin 83 Fruits and See Which Are Berries: how it works

This wheel of fruits holds 83 fruits, from apple and banana to yuzu, rambutan and kiwano. Spin it and the card says what kind of fruit it is to a botanist and adds one fact. Expect surprises: a banana is a berry and a strawberry is not. The full wheel of 83 is numbered. Tap Citrus, Melons or any group and the slices carry the names.

Four games for the fruit wheel

Berry or not? The spinner reads out only the name, and everyone votes before the card is read. Half of the 16 in the Berries group are not berries to a botanist. Guess the fruit. Read the fact and leave out the name. Taste test. Spin before the weekly shop and hunt for that fruit. Class project. In Elimination no fruit lands twice, so thirty students get thirty fruits to look up.

Why the card calls a banana a berry

Botanists sort fruit by how it grows from the flower. A berry is a fleshy fruit from one flower with a single ovary and no hard stone around its seeds. Grapes, kiwifruit and bananas count, and so does an avocado with its one big seed. A raspberry is a cluster of tiny fruits from one flower. Peaches and mangoes are drupes, with one hard stone. Apples are pomes. Melons and citrus are special kinds of berry, called pepos and hesperidia.

Tips

  • For a lunchbox pick, tap My list, type the fruits in your kitchen and spin.
  • Tap Citrus for family trees: the cards say which fruits are crosses of pomelo, mandarin and citron.
  • Spin the letter wheel first and name a fruit starting with that letter before this wheel stops.

Questions and answers

Is a strawberry really not a berry?

Not to a botanist. Wikipedia's strawberry article calls it an aggregate accessory fruit, because the red flesh grows from the base of the flower and not from the flower's ovary. Each seed-like speck on the outside is an achene, a tiny fruit with a seed inside it.

Why is there no tomato on the wheel?

The wheel holds culinary fruits, the ones a kitchen treats as fruit. A tomato is a berry to a botanist, but cooks use it as a vegetable. Wikipedia's list of culinary fruits leaves out tomatoes and zucchini for that reason, and so does this wheel.

Where do the fruit types on the cards come from?

All 83 fruits were matched on 2026-09-18 to Wikipedia's list of culinary fruits, which sorts them into pomes, drupes, berries, pepos and more. What counts as a berry follows Wikipedia's article on the botanical berry. Each card's fact comes from the fruit's own article.

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All 83 fruits

Apples and pears 6

  • Apple A pome: the core holds the seeds. The apple tree came from Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, still grows. Latin name: Malus domestica.
  • Asian pear A pome: the core holds the seeds. Native to southern China and northern Indochina, and also sold as nashi, apple pear or sand pear. Latin name: Pyrus pyrifolia.
  • Loquat A pome: the core holds the seeds. An orange fruit from an evergreen tree native to south-central China. Several languages call it the Japanese medlar. Latin name: Eriobotrya japonica.
  • Medlar A pome: the core holds the seeds. Grown since Roman times, in season in winter, and eaten once it has bletted, which means softened past ripe. Latin name: Mespilus germanica.
  • Pear A pome: the core holds the seeds. About 3,000 varieties are grown worldwide, and pear wood is a preferred material for woodwind instruments. Latin name: Pyrus communis.
  • Quince A pome: the core holds the seeds. The only member of its genus: hard, tart and golden-yellow, eaten raw or made into jam and quince cheese. Latin name: Cydonia oblonga.

Stone fruit 8

  • Apricot A drupe, or stone fruit. Domesticated in ancient times in Central Asia and China, and eaten both fresh and dried. Latin name: Prunus armeniaca.
  • Cherry A drupe, or stone fruit. Sweet cherries come from Prunus avium, which is often called wild cherry in the British Isles. Latin name: Prunus avium.
  • Damson A drupe, or stone fruit. A small, oval subspecies of plum with a somewhat astringent taste, used widely in jams and preserves. Latin name: Prunus domestica subsp. insititia.
  • Greengage A drupe, or stone fruit. A group of plum cultivars known for a rich, confectionery flavor and counted among the finest dessert plums. Latin name: Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
  • Nectarine A drupe, or stone fruit. The same species as the peach: nectarines are the glossy-skinned varieties with no fuzz. Latin name: Prunus persica var. nucipersica.
  • Peach A drupe, or stone fruit. First domesticated in China. The Latin name points to Persia, the route by which it reached Europe. Latin name: Prunus persica.
  • Plum A drupe, or stone fruit. A dried plum is a prune, and plums are likely to have been among the first fruits people domesticated. Latin name: Prunus domestica.
  • Sour cherry A drupe, or stone fruit. Its two main groups are the dark-red Morello and the lighter-red Amarelle. Latin name: Prunus cerasus.

Melons 8

  • Canary melon A pepo, the melon kind of berry. Named for its canary-yellow rind. The flesh is pale green to white and a little tangier than honeydew. Latin name: Cucumis melo.
  • Cantaloupe A pepo, the melon kind of berry. In North America the name means the netted muskmelon, which Australia calls rockmelon and southern Africa calls spanspek. Latin name: Cucumis melo var. reticulatus.
  • Crenshaw melon A pepo, the melon kind of berry. A hybrid of the casaba melon and the Persian melon, described as very sweet. Latin name: Cucumis melo.
  • Honeydew A pepo, the melon kind of berry. The honeydew melon has a smooth rind and no musky smell, and sits in the same group as the wrinkled casaba. Latin name: Cucumis melo var. inodorus.
  • Kiwano A pepo, the melon kind of berry. Also called the horned melon for its spines: orange skin outside, soft lime-green flesh inside. Native to southern Africa. Latin name: Cucumis metuliferus.
  • Oriental melon A pepo, the melon kind of berry. Grown in East Asia, about 90 percent water, with a rind thin enough that the melon can be eaten whole. Latin name: Cucumis melo.
  • Piel de Sapo A pepo, the melon kind of berry. The name is Spanish for toad skin, and in English it is also called Santa Claus melon or Christmas melon. It comes from Spain and has a thick, green-striped rind. Latin name: Cucumis melo.
  • Watermelon A pepo, the melon kind of berry: a firm rind and no inner walls. It was first domesticated in Sudan. Latin name: Citrullus lanatus.

Grapes, figs and more 9

  • Avocado A berry to most botanists, with one large seed; some class it as a drupe. The tree belongs to the laurel family. Latin name: Persea americana.
  • Date A drupe, or stone fruit. Dates grow on a palm that can reach 30 meters tall and live for more than 100 years. Latin name: Phoenix dactylifera.
  • Fig A multiple fruit of a kind called a syconium. What looks like one fig holds many tiny fruits on the inside. Latin name: Ficus carica.
  • Grape A berry to a botanist. Grapes grow in clusters on woody vines, and people have farmed them for about 8,000 years. Latin name: Vitis vinifera.
  • Jujube A drupe, or stone fruit. Also called the red date or Chinese date, and eaten fresh, dried or candied. Latin name: Ziziphus jujuba.
  • Kiwifruit A berry to a botanist. Native to central and eastern China and also called the Chinese gooseberry. The thin, fuzzy skin is edible. Latin name: Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa.
  • Persimmon Like the tomato, a berry in the botanical sense. The most widely grown kind is the kaki persimmon of East Asia. Latin name: Diospyros kaki.
  • Pomegranate A berry to a botanist. It comes from the region between the Caucasus and the Iranian plateau, where it was first domesticated about 5,000 years ago. Latin name: Punica granatum.
  • Prickly pear A berry to a botanist. The fruit of the most widespread farmed cactus, whose wild origin was probably central Mexico. Latin name: Opuntia ficus-indica.

Berries 16

  • Bilberry A berry to a botanist. Also called the European blueberry: a close relative of the North American blueberry, in the same genus. Latin name: Vaccinium myrtillus.
  • Black currant A berry to a botanist. Also known as cassis, and native to central and northern Europe and northern Asia. Latin name: Ribes nigrum.
  • Black raspberry An aggregate fruit: many small fruits from one flower. A bramble native to eastern North America, also called the black cap. Latin name: Rubus occidentalis.
  • Blackberry Not a berry to a botanist: an aggregate fruit of small drupelets. Blackberry species cross so easily that botanists often sort them into species aggregates. Several species in the genus Rubus.
  • Blueberry A berry to a botanist. The blueberries sold in shops, wild lowbush and farmed highbush alike, are all native to North America. Latin name: Vaccinium corymbosum.
  • Boysenberry An aggregate fruit: many small fruits from one flower. A cross that brings together the European raspberry, the European blackberry, the American dewberry and the loganberry.
  • Cloudberry An aggregate fruit: many small fruits from one flower. Amber when ripe. It grows on Arctic tundra and in boreal forest, and it is picked wild, not farmed. Latin name: Rubus chamaemorus.
  • Cranberry A berry to a botanist. It starts light green and turns red when ripe, on a low creeping shrub or vine. Latin name: Vaccinium macrocarpon.
  • Gooseberry A berry to a botanist. Gooseberries share the genus Ribes with the currants, and may be green, orange, red, purple, yellow, white or black. Latin name: Ribes uva-crispa.
  • Huckleberry A berry to a botanist. Huckleberry is a North American name for several plants in two related genera, Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. Latin name: Vaccinium ovatum.
  • Lingonberry A berry to a botanist. Also called cowberry, foxberry or mountain cranberry, and native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra across the Northern Hemisphere. Latin name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
  • Loganberry An aggregate fruit: many small fruits from one flower. A blackberry and raspberry hybrid, bred by accident in 1881 by James Harvey Logan and named after him. Latin name: Rubus × loganobaccus.
  • Mulberry A multiple fruit: the fruits of many flowers grown into one. White, red and black mulberries are named for the color of their winter buds, which is not always the color of the fruit. Latin name: Morus nigra.
  • Raspberry Not a berry to a botanist: an aggregate fruit of many small drupelets from one flower. The plant belongs to the rose family. Latin name: Rubus idaeus.
  • Red currant A berry to a botanist. Native to western Europe, and a garden plant that has escaped into the wild in many regions. Latin name: Ribes rubrum.
  • Strawberry Not a berry to a botanist: an aggregate accessory fruit. Each "seed" on the outside is a tiny fruit of its own, called an achene. Latin name: Fragaria × ananassa.

Citrus 16

  • Blood orange A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. A sweet orange whose crimson flesh comes from anthocyanins, pigments that are uncommon in citrus. The color develops when nights are cold. Latin name: Citrus × sinensis.
  • Buddha's hand A citron, so a citrus fruit, split into finger-like sections. Unlike other citrus it holds no pulp or juice. The rind and pith are the parts eaten. Latin name: Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis.
  • Clementine A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. A cross of a mandarin and a sweet orange, named for Clément Rodier, the missionary who first grew it in Algeria. It splits into 7 to 14 segments. Latin name: Citrus × clementina.
  • Grapefruit A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. It arose in Barbados in the 18th century as an accidental cross of the sweet orange and the pomelo. Latin name: Citrus × paradisi.
  • Key lime A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. Smaller, seedier and more acidic than the Persian lime, and named for the Florida Keys, the home of Key lime pie. Latin name: Citrus × aurantiifolia.
  • Kumquat A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. It looks like an orange but is about the size of a large olive. Latin name: Citrus japonica.
  • Lemon A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. A hybrid of the citron and the bitter orange. Its juice is about 5 to 6 percent citric acid. Latin name: Citrus × limon.
  • Lime A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. Lime is a name shared by several citrus fruits, the Persian lime, the Key lime and the finger lime among them. Latin name of the Persian lime: Citrus × latifolia.
  • Mandarin A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. The mandarin orange is one of the original wild citrus species and an ancestor of many hybrids, the sweet orange included. Its thin, loose peel comes off easily. Latin name: Citrus reticulata.
  • Meyer lemon A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. A cross between a citron and a mandarin-pomelo hybrid, rounder and sweeter than a true lemon. Frank Meyer brought it from China to the United States in 1908. Latin name: Citrus × meyeri.
  • Orange A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. The sweet orange is a hybrid of the pomelo and the mandarin. Latin name: Citrus × sinensis.
  • Pomelo A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. The largest citrus fruit: a natural species, not a hybrid, and an ancestor of the grapefruit. Latin name: Citrus maxima.
  • Satsuma A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. An easy-peeling, semi-seedless mandarin, also called the Japanese mandarin. Latin name: Citrus unshiu.
  • Tangelo A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. A cross of a mandarin or tangerine with a pomelo or grapefruit. The bump at the stem tells it from an orange. Latin name: Citrus × tangelo.
  • Tangerine A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. Botanists do not agree on it: a variety of mandarin, a close relative, or a mandarin hybrid with some pomelo in it. Latin name: Citrus × tangerina.
  • Yuzu A hesperidium, the citrus kind of berry. Thought to have begun in central China as a hybrid of a mandarin and the ichang papeda, and grown mainly in East Asia. Latin name: Citrus × junos.

Tropical 20

  • Açaí A drupe, or stone fruit. The small black-purple fruit of a palm from the swamps and floodplains of eastern Amazonia. Latin name: Euterpe oleracea.
  • Banana A berry to a botanist, even though nobody calls it one. Nearly all bananas grown to eat are seedless, and the fruit grows upward in clusters. Latin name: Musa acuminata.
  • Breadfruit A multiple fruit: the fruits of many flowers grown into one. Named for its texture when cooked, which is like fresh bread, with a potato-like taste. Latin name: Artocarpus altilis.
  • Cherimoya An aggregate fruit: many small fruits from one flower. A close relative of the soursop, native to the mountains of Honduras and Guatemala and long grown in the Andes. Latin name: Annona cherimola.
  • Coconut A drupe, not a true nut. The only living species in its genus. The husk gives coir fiber and the dried flesh is called copra. Latin name: Cocos nucifera.
  • Dragon fruit A berry to a botanist. The fruit of a cactus native to southern Mexico and Central America, also called pitaya. Latin name: Selenicereus undatus.
  • Durian A capsule: a pod fruit built from several carpels. Called the king of fruits in some regions, and known for its thorny rind and strong smell. Latin name: Durio zibethinus.
  • Guava A berry to a botanist. A small tree of the myrtle family, native from Mexico to northern South America. Latin name: Psidium guajava.
  • Jackfruit A multiple fruit: the fruits of many flowers grown into one. The largest fruit that grows on a tree: up to 90 cm long and up to 50 kg. Native to India. Latin name: Artocarpus heterophyllus.
  • Longan A drupe, or stone fruit. Also called dragon's eye: a milder relative of the lychee, in the same soapberry family. Latin name: Dimocarpus longan.
  • Lychee A drupe, or stone fruit. The only member of its genus, with a floral smell often compared to roses. Grown in China since at least the 11th century. Latin name: Litchi chinensis.
  • Mango A drupe, or stone fruit. The national fruit of India, Pakistan and the Philippines, with several hundred cultivars. Latin name: Mangifera indica.
  • Papaya A berry to a botanist; some call it a pepo, like a melon. First domesticated in southern Mexico and Central America. Latin name: Carica papaya.
  • Passionfruit A berry to a botanist, of the kind called a pepo. Yellow or dark purple when ripe and full of seeds. Native to southern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina. Latin name: Passiflora edulis.
  • Pineapple A multiple fruit: the flowers of one plant fuse into a single pineapple. Native to South America. Latin name: Ananas comosus.
  • Plantain A berry to a botanist, like every banana. Plantains are starchy cooking bananas: cooked before eating, not eaten raw. Several cultivars in the genus Musa.
  • Rambutan A drupe, or stone fruit. A hairy, leathery rind around sweet flesh and a single seed. Native to Southeast Asia. Latin name: Nephelium lappaceum.
  • Soursop An aggregate fruit: many small fruits from one flower. It smells a little like pineapple, and its creamy flesh is said to taste of strawberry and apple with sour citrus. Native to the tropical Americas. Latin name: Annona muricata.
  • Star fruit A berry to a botanist. It has five or six ridges down its sides, so a slice across it makes a star. Latin name: Averrhoa carambola.
  • Tamarind A legume: a pod fruit, the same kind as a pea pod. The brown pods hold a sweet, tangy pulp. The tree is native to tropical Africa. Latin name: Tamarindus indica.

How this list was compiled: An original selection of 83 culinary fruits made for this site on 2026-09-18 and sorted the way a kitchen sorts them: 16 berries, 16 citrus, 8 stone fruit, 6 apples and pears, 8 melons, 20 tropical, 9 grapes, figs and more. Every fruit was matched by script on 2026-09-18 to a row of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits, and the Latin name and the botanical section it sits in there are kept with each fruit. The botanical type on each card follows that list's sections (pome, drupe, botanical berry, pepo, hesperidium, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, capsule, legume). What a berry is follows en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany), checked 2026-09-18: a fleshy fruit from a single flower with one ovary, with no hard stone around the seed or seeds; one seed or many. That article says berries from an inferior ovary (bananas, blueberries, cranberries, melons) are sometimes called false berries, so no card says 'true berry'. It lists avocado as a berry with a single large seed that is sometimes classed as a drupe, and says papaya and passion fruit are sometimes counted as pepos; the cards say the same. Mulberry is a multiple fruit per en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morus_(plant). The second sentence on each card is one fact written in this site's own words from the lead section of the fruit's own English Wikipedia article, read on 2026-09-18 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ plus that title); Crenshaw melon has no article of its own and its fact is from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon. Mangosteen, sapodilla and pawpaw were left out because the list's botanical placement of them could not be confirmed. Grapefruit is shown as Citrus × paradisi, the name its Wikipedia article uses. Four display names are the everyday word for a more exact row in the list: Raspberry (European red raspberry), Plum (European plum), Cherry (wild cherry, Prunus avium, the sweet cherry species) and Cantaloupe (North American cantaloupe). Since 2026-09-19 three more are shortened so the wheel can print them whole on a slice: Mandarin (mandarin orange), Honeydew (honeydew melon) and Piel de Sapo, the Spanish name of the Santa Claus melon; each card still gives the longer name. The boysenberry card gives no Latin name because sources describe its parentage differently. 25 fruits found in most grocery stores are marked as common; that marking is this site's judgment. Licence: own work