Although St Barth is quite often a dry island, if you keep your eyes open, you can find many local fruits and nuts growing wild around the island. A few examples are almonds, tamarind, sea grapes, cherries, little apples, corossol (or soursop), little apples and passionfruit. And, of course, the quenette. The quenette resembles a small, oval lime and grows on trees ranging from 18 to 30 feet. The yellowish-pink pulp, whose taste has been compared to a litchi, surrounds a very large pit. The tree is native to Colombia and Venezuela and appeared in the Antilles at the beginning of the 19th century. The fruit is often used in jams and syrups to flavor rum. But on a hot day, there's nothing like stumbling across a quenette tree and just popping open the thin skin and enjoying the tasty fruit.

(Editor's Note: On other English-speaking islands, this fruit is called the "genip".)