Fruits That Start With L

6 fruits Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 6 fruits that start with L, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

Citrus and small Asian fruits share the L page. Lemon and lime are the two every child already knows, and both are sour enough to make faces at during a taste test.

The other four are worth a closer look. Lychee and longan are cousins with thin shells and sweet, clear flesh inside. Loquat is a small orange fruit with a tangy bite, and lingonberry is a tart red berry that looks like a tiny cranberry. That makes six fruits in all, a handy number for a short lesson.

Fruits starting with L: 6
Best known: lemon, lime
Longest name: lingonberry

All fruits that start with L

#	Name	What it is
1	lemon	yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
2	lime	the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
3	lingonberry	tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
4	longan	small Asian fruit with brown shell and sweet clear flesh
5	loquat	small orange fruit with sweet tangy juicy flesh
6	lychee	Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried

Questions people ask

How many fruits start with L?

This list has 6 fruits starting with L, from well-known ones like lemon, lime, lychee to rarer kinds.

What fruits start with L?

Well-known examples are lemon, lime, lychee, longan, loquat.

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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