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I nearly took a photo of a big one yesterday at around 50 ft. Seeds were all over the ground and they look just like breadfruit trees.
Like breadfruit there is a lot of variation in leaf digitation. They are like jackfruit seeds but better and you boil them, salt them and eat like chestnuts or big peanuts. In curries they go soft and are like a potato substute being starchy.
I just got corrected again. Of course there is another Breadnut, a totally different spcecies, Brosimum allicastrum the Maya Breadnut. Thank you Indian River County Frank. I’m surprised you don’t have both.
The sabara might have been transplanted in the 70's as a big tree already. The kepel I fugured was planted when the park was first set up and planted out in the 70's. Kepels grew fast at my place and needed to be chopped down as they were too close to the house. They grew fast and fruited fast and this was probably the mother tree.
Kepels can have much larger fruit than the 2cm to 3cm fruit size in references and fruit of this size are runts. They also fruit up high and along the branches not just the lower trunk. Even the descriptions of fruit flavour seem wrong. I don't know if there are different forms but have seen them grow and fruit faster than what is usually described. Maybe I should send some seeds to you Oscar to compare with your local trees seedlings growth rate.