Fruits That Start With B

14 fruits Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 14 fruits that start with B, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

B is a berry letter. Blueberry, blackberry, blackcurrant, boysenberry and bilberry all sit here, and boysenberry is a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. Banana is the easiest pick for small children.

Cherries and pears appear under variety names too, such as bing cherry, black cherry, bartlett pear and bosc. Breadfruit is a large round fruit with a texture like bread, and beach plum is a small purple fruit used in jams. Fourteen fruits in all give B plenty of depth.

Fruits starting with B: 14
Best known: banana, blackberry
Longest name: barbados cherry

Best-known fruits that start with B

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

banana
blackberry
blueberry
blackcurrant
boysenberry

All fruits that start with B

#	Name	What it is
1	banana	elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
2	barbados cherry	acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C
3	bartlett pear	juicy yellow pear
4	beach plum	small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies
5	bilberry	blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
6	bing cherry	dark red or blackish sweet cherry
7	bitter orange	highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
8	black cherry	any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
9	blackberry	large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
10	blackcurrant	small dark purple berry used in juice and jam
11	blueberry	sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
12	bosc	greenish-yellow pear
13	boysenberry	large dark purple berry, a blackberry and raspberry cross
14	breadfruit	a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread

Short fruits with B

bosc

Questions people ask

How many fruits start with B?

This list has 14 fruits starting with B, from well-known ones like banana, blackberry, blueberry to rarer kinds.

What fruits start with B?

Well-known examples are banana, blackberry, blueberry, blackcurrant, boysenberry.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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