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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please help me to ID
« on: February 11, 2024, 05:52:29 PM »
   A friend of mine some 5 years back send me a selection of fruit seeds. They got mixed up but none te less I put them to germinate. Some seeds germinated.  The seedling grew up  and it fruited. Attached is a plant with fruits in it.  Can any member help me to identify
the botanical name ?  I tasted the fruits and they are extremely sweet


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to get rid of cutter ants
« on: July 06, 2023, 10:19:17 PM »
My garden is infested with cutter ants.  Cutter ants  at night,  leave from their holes in ground  sometimes several yards away, as an army leaving a trail. They attack a tree by cutting the stalk of leaves. Leaves fall on ground forming a green carpet. Before dawn these ants return back to their holes.  The next day they return to the same site and cut the fallen leaves into small size pieces  and the army carries these cut leaves to the holes.  Has any member had similar problems ? Have tried  pumping  deltametrin powder in these holes  but this  procedure seams not to exterminate the ants.  Would like to if members of this  FORUM  have had similar problems and if there are more effective procedures and insecticides which can be used to exterminate cutter ants.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Bananas
« on: July 03, 2021, 08:21:49 PM »



Could any of the members of this forum help me to identify the disease on this bunch of bananas ? Is it a fungus ? antracnosis ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help in ID this fruit
« on: February 20, 2021, 05:15:10 PM »
Could any member of this forum help me to Id this fruit ? Thank you in antecipation


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Syzygium aromaticum
« on: February 19, 2021, 04:41:01 PM »
Could some member help we to identify if the flower buds in the attached photos are of Syzygium aromaticum ?. Some time back  I was sold a seedling of Cloves. The plant grew up and flowered. If they are clove buds, at what stage should I pick and dry them up to use them as condiment ?




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help in ID this fruit
« on: January 04, 2021, 07:35:50 PM »
Could any member of this Forum help me to ID this fruit ?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to store seeds
« on: September 12, 2020, 04:04:32 PM »
 Frequently I have seeds of tropical fruits which I need to store for a year or so. Living in a tropical area with a lot of humidity,  mold is a problem.   What  easily available agents could be added to the dried seeds without compromising the germinative power of the seeds to avoid this problem?.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Papaya
« on: July 05, 2020, 09:18:24 AM »
 When I buy papayas in a fruit store, I have noticed recently that they develop ugly spots on the outside skin after I keep them to ripen for  3-4 days. Would  welcome solutions to get rid of this problem


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Recipes / Re: Papaya
« on: July 05, 2020, 09:14:14 AM »
 When I buy papayas in a fruit store, I have noticed recently that they develop ugly spots on the outside skin after I keep them to ripen for  3-4 days. Would  welcome solutions to get rid of this problem


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I had to cut a Syzygium cumini tree as its roots were compromising my tubewell. Would like to know if there is any chemical product which when applied would decompose the buried tree stump faster and avoid regrowth of the tree

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Seeds in Papayas
« on: November 11, 2018, 04:23:01 PM »
I have noticed that when I plant seeds from a store bought papaya, the resulting papaya trees  produce  papayas  with an  imense quantity of seeds. Sometimes the seeds occupy almost half the volume of the fruit.  Question:    Is there a factor or a substance which stimulates the formation of seeds inf some types of fruits ? 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please ID
« on: June 22, 2018, 06:05:55 PM »

Could any member of this forum help me to identify this plant ? Are the fruits edible ?  Thanks





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / PAW PAW
« on: September 20, 2017, 10:27:01 AM »
member Triphal informs me that he has had a nice crop of Paw Paw fruit.  Below are photos he sent me
 Interested collectors should PM him.





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please help me to ID
« on: April 12, 2017, 09:38:58 PM »
    I would appreciate if some member could help me to ID this plant. The round golf size object is a bud and not a fruit:


  Never seen a fruit or seed of this plant. Are they edible ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Guava
« on: June 20, 2016, 05:52:18 PM »
 One of my  guava trees has leaves with motled red coloured patches. Is this  problem result of a Pest ? a  Disease ? or a nutrition problem?
 How could I remedy this in my plant ?   I have other guava trees with normal green leaves.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help me to Id
« on: May 28, 2016, 09:09:14 PM »
Some  eight year back a friend of mine visiting the brazilian amazon brought me two seeds. I planted them and today they are two trees 10 meters tall.  A week back I saw a fruit on one of them. Would appreciate if some member could identify. Adding image to this posting

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Coconut palm is no longer regarded as a tree
« on: February 01, 2016, 07:29:41 PM »
      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35417168

              Do you agree ???

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please ID this fruit
« on: September 01, 2014, 07:18:21 AM »
 I recently came across this site from Goa, India:

            https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk70/14875880779/in/photostream/

could some member help to identify this fruit ? Locally it is known as mattoli


                                                                                               thanks
                                                                                                                       mangaba

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Wanted help in identifying
« on: May 17, 2014, 04:31:55 PM »
Whilst  visiting Panjim, the capital city of Goa, in India I came across vendors selling this fruit by name of matoma:
            https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mattoma+joegoauk

  The fruit has a  cream coloured sweetish pulp.  Any help in identifying the botanical name would be appreciated.
                                                               mangaba

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