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Messages - Kapiak

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Teringi, from papua, zingiberales
« on: July 10, 2014, 11:20:24 AM »
We have something like that (if not same) in our forest patch here in New Guinea too, it is an Amomum sp. (The species in New Guinea has in the past been ID as A. aculeatum, but an ginger expert said it may be an distinct species but not determined yet).

The fruits are borne just above the ground, and the fleshy aril inside has a nice fresh zesty taste, somewhat similar to that of Hornstedtia, another native ginger-relative in our forest patch.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: fruit papua
« on: July 10, 2014, 10:11:46 AM »
Very small pictures, but my guess from those small picture is that Prapra is a ginger-relative, either Hornstedtia sp. (often very nice tasting small fruit, like a fruit punch) or possibly an Etlingera (very small fruits inside the bracts, often tangy taste but very little flesh).

I too look forward to know more, Sumatraexotics, about the first plant, Ngondonggur. Haven't seen it here in Papua New Guinea.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Achachairu (Achacha) seeds wanted
« on: January 31, 2014, 10:27:00 AM »
Oscar,

You say it will fruit in LOTS of shade? Amazing!

So it could be an understorey tree in an ultratropic food forest beneath a very large fruit tree?

Ricardo said it gets 8 metres wide after 30 years, but how tall would it get, so I get an idea where to place them in our food forest here?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED: Alsomitra macrocarpa
« on: January 15, 2014, 12:52:18 AM »
Yes those gliding seeds are amazing!

The fruits I saw looks much the same, but the edges of the opening seems somewhat different, but maybe just a local variation. I will photo the fruits next time I see them.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED: Alsomitra macrocarpa
« on: January 13, 2014, 07:18:46 PM »
Alsomitra grows here in New Guinea too, with huge cannonball / football sized dry hard shelled fruits fallen on the ground. We have seen them twice so far, but no good seeds yet. I want to grow this one myself too.

When I find seeds, I can let you know.

(Not sure which species it is though, but the seeds do fly like gliders here in New Guinea too.)

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Monkey pot/ paradise nuts
« on: January 10, 2014, 07:45:24 AM »
This is maybe different from the one I know.

Do you maybe have a photo of the fruit, and maybe the tree too?

And did you try the nuts, if so, how were they?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Monkey pot/ paradise nuts
« on: January 09, 2014, 05:37:05 PM »
I am interested!

But how is this a small monkey pot? I read the tree reaches about 55 metres in height, one of the biggest trees in Amazon. What is small about this one?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling: TROPICAL FRUIT SEEDS
« on: December 29, 2013, 08:59:40 AM »
Folks, does his offer of Garcinia prainiana really look like that species, the "button mangosteen"?

Or is it another species?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wanted: Rollinia fruit
« on: March 17, 2013, 09:45:01 AM »
That's quite a good selection of species / cultivars! Thank you for the link.

Will definitely order when we start focusing on our orchard.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Lookin fer rollinia fruits
« on: March 14, 2013, 06:03:27 AM »
But can you ship seeds? ;)

Would love some here in New Guinea! There are only sweetsop and soursops here.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Trade Artocarpus camansi with other Artocarpus spp.
« on: March 14, 2013, 05:44:54 AM »
Vlk - When it comes to Artocarpus, we have many trees of A. camansi, and also the commonly cultivated ones, like breadfruit, chempedak and jackfruit.

The others are on their way in the post system :)

We have just begun collecting native edible plants. In our Lae garden (sea level) we do already have several nut trees of PNG oak (Castanopsis acuminatissima, like small chestnuts), okari (Terminalia kaernbachii), java almonds (Terminalia catappa), pao (Barringtonia procera), two other Terminalia species from the rainforest which were very tasty but I couldn't identify them to species name, canarium almond (Canarium indicum).

And also a fruit vegetable: red and yellow forms of marita (Pandanus conoideus).

In our highland Goroka garden (1500 m altitude) we also have karuka (Pandanus jiulianettii, the nuts looks like giant sunflower seeds and tastes almost like that too).

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Trade Artocarpus camansi with other Artocarpus spp.
« on: March 13, 2013, 05:51:02 AM »
We are just starting to set up a small orchard of Artocarpus species, simply because I love these fruits. And we have lots of the native Artocarpus camansi, bread nut, in our forested part of our land here in Papua New Guinea.

However, the season for the bread-nut is almost over, so we are happy to collect the last seeds to trade with other Artocarpus species.

The wild population of the bread nut here is somewhat variable in the leaf pattern but all of them are fast growing trees with a very handsome tree shape, one single straight trunk soaring more than 20 metres up (however, if you prune it it will be a shorter and branched tree), and produces lots of fruits twice a year. The fruits look somewhat like the common bread fruit, but smaller, and full of really big seeds that are very delicious boiled in salted water, or roasted in fire. Tastes like chestnut, but more softer and not as dry and starchy as chestnuts are.

We eat them every day when in season, so most seeds have been eaten but there are some last fruits to ripen if someone is interested?

I would like seeds of any Artocarpus except for jackfruit and breadfruit.

Please, note: Only a few fruits left on the trees, so I can't collect more seeds after March 18th.
But can put you up on waitlist for next season if you wish...

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