While looking for why mangosteens are verboten,

[lsanderson]

I googled this site, http://www.davestravelcorner.com/links/exoticfruit.htm, which seems like a nice jumping off place for exotic fruits.

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Re: Inquiring minds and all that...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

This article goes into it: http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_26/findingaforbidden.html

I suspect they really don't have an accurate risk assesment for them. We do, however, have tropical & semi-tropical fruit in the southern states. They tend to worry a bit about importing some new blight.