Fruit Gushers which come in a "Fruit Punch" flavor with differently colored fruit-flavored fillings. Another variety that was developed is "Hawaiian Punch". These Gushers are the same shape as the original Fruit Gushers and contain three naturally flavored fruit snacks: "Pineapple Paradise", "Watermelon Luau", and "Maui Mango". They are not currently for sale in all states and regions of the US. Fruit Gushers Fruit Gushers, commonly known as Gushers, are American fruit candy snacks in the shape of elongated hexagonal bipyramids, made primarily from sugar and fruit juice, with small amounts of other ingredients. Introduced in 1991, they are produced by General
Boletellus ananas although he admitted it was impossible to come to any definitive conclusions until mature fruit bodies and spore prints were available for study. Rolf Singer and colleagues (1992) suggested the name "Boletellus coccineus" for "Boletellus ananas". Singer created this name, however, in the mistaken belief that the earliest available name for the taxon was "Boletus coccineus", proposed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1838. However, Fries’s name is an illegitimate later homonym (compare with "Boletus coccineus", named by Bulliard in 1791), and Singer’s combination is actually based on "Strobilomyces coccineus", named by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1888. The earliest available name