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The field is sometimes known by the <a href="/wiki/Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> "TropHort". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tropical_horticulture&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tropical horticulture includes plants such as perennial woody plants (<a href="/wiki/Arboriculture" title="Arboriculture">arboriculture</a>), ornamentals (<a href="/wiki/Floriculture" title="Floriculture">floriculture</a>), vegetables (<a href="/wiki/Olericulture" title="Olericulture">olericulture</a>), and fruits (<a href="/wiki/Pomology" title="Pomology">pomology</a>) including grapes (<a href="/wiki/Viticulture" title="Viticulture">viticulture</a>). The origin of many of these crops is not in the tropics but in temperate zones. Their adoption to tropical climatic conditions is an objective of <a href="/wiki/Breeding_in_the_wild" title="Breeding in the wild">breeding</a>. Many important crops, however, are indigenous to the tropics. The latter embrace perennial crops such as <a href="/wiki/Elaeis_guineensis" title="Elaeis guineensis">oil palm</a>, vegetables including <a href="/wiki/Okra" title="Okra">okra</a>, field crops such as <a href="/wiki/Rice" title="Rice">rice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sugarcane" title="Sugarcane">sugarcane</a>, and particularly fruits including <a href="/wiki/Pineapple" title="Pineapple">pineapple</a>, <a href="/wiki/Banana" title="Banana">banana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Papaya" title="Papaya">papaya</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mango" title="Mango">mango</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Since the tropics represent 36 percent of the Earth's surface and 20 percent of its land surface, the potential of tropical horticulture is huge.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast to <a href="/wiki/Temperate_climate" title="Temperate climate">temperate</a> regions, <a href="/wiki/Natural_environment" title="Natural environment">environmental</a> conditions in the tropics are defined less by seasonal temperature fluctuations and more by seasonality of precipitation. Thus the <a href="/wiki/Climate" title="Climate">climate</a> in the greater part of the tropics is characterized by distinct wet and dry seasons, although such variation is reduced in locations closer to the equator (±5° latitude). Temperature conditions in the tropics are affected by elevation,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which contrasting warmer and colder climate areas in the tropics can be differentiated,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4–5">: 4–5 </span></sup> and highland areas in the tropics can consequently be more favourable for production of temperate plant species than are lowland areas.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_of_plants">Types of plants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tropical_horticulture&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Types of plants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Tropical_agriculture#Common_tropical_horticulture_crops" title="Tropical agriculture">Tropical agriculture § Common tropical horticulture crops</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_fruits#Tropical_fruits" class="mw-redirect" title="List of fruits">List of fruits § Tropical fruits</a></div> <p>Both <a href="/wiki/Vascular_plant" title="Vascular plant">vascular</a> and <a href="/wiki/Non-vascular_plant" title="Non-vascular plant">non-vascular</a> plants grow in tropical environments. Plants indigenous to the tropics are usually cold sensitive and adapted to receiving high levels of <a href="/wiki/Sunlight" title="Sunlight">solar radiation</a>. They are sensitive to small variations in photoperiod ("short day" plants), and can be adapted to extended drought, high precipitation and/or distinct wet and dry seasons. High night temperatures are a major hindrance to adopting temperate crops (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Tomato" title="Tomato">tomatoes</a>) to the tropical lowlands. 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