Fruits That Start With C

10 fruits Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 10 fruits that start with C, 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.

Ten fruits start with C, and the best known are cherry, coconut and cranberry. Clementine, a small seedless orange, and cantaloupe, an orange-fleshed melon, are fruit-bowl favorites for many families.

The rarer choices are good for quizzes. Citron is a large lemon-like fruit with a thick rind, custard apple comes from tropical trees, and coco plum is used for preserves. Crab apple is a small sour apple, and currant is a tart berry used in jellies. Cantaloupe is a fun spelling challenge because of its ending.

Fruits starting with C: 10
Best known: cherry, coconut
Longest name: custard apple

Best-known fruits that start with C

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

cherry
coconut
cranberry
clementine
cantaloupe

All fruits that start with C

#	Name	What it is
1	cantaloupe	the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh
2	cherry	a red fruit with a single hard stone
3	citron	large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved
4	clementine	a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds
5	coco plum	plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American
6	coconut	large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when...
7	crab apple	small sour apple; suitable for preserving
8	cranberry	very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
9	currant	any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams
10	custard apple	the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp

Questions people ask

How many fruits start with C?

This list has 10 fruits starting with C, from well-known ones like cherry, coconut, cranberry to rarer kinds.

What fruits start with C?

Well-known examples are cherry, coconut, cranberry, clementine, cantaloupe.

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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