I am just back fro ma trip to Davao Mindanao.
Davao is considered the fruit capital of the Philippines and worlwide known for red sweet pomelo, durian and other fruits.
Just sharing my wonderful experience
Durian and Marang seem to grow everywhere from the simple gardens to the wild forest.
Thy evidently like the fertile loamy deep soil and the copious evenly ditributed rainfall.
Here some wind marang teees, they can really get wnormous mst of them with an upright growing habit:
now it's NOT marang season nevertheless, some trees are bearing small fruits
Here a marang and a durian are growing wild close to each other
Mangosteen is uncomon in the wild but there are some very nice plantations in the higher hills (cooler, heavier yearly rainfall)
Trees look so green and healthy!
All these are seedlings of about 10 years old. Notice the bushy pyramidal growing habit.
According to the owner seedlings are preferred because grafted trees bear a couple of years earlier (6 years instead of
but their production declines faster during time and trees are more subjects to die,
Here a detail of the leaves so green, glossy and gorgeous
Some durian trees are also bearing small fruits now.
As i said no it's NOT season for marang/durian/mangosteen.
Best time is august/september
Here some pictures of the several fruit markets.
Pomelos are SOOOOOOOO amazingly sweet.
Marang so creamy and delicious.
I couldn't resist to temptation and i devoured a whole marang right at the market
Durian .....well....the king of fruits has a category itself!
There are several varieties available.
This one is locally called ARANCILLO. Fruit are small with a yellow pulp.
Smell is very very light. taste. is super good...impossible to describe, i would say ADDICTIVE!
This is one of my favourite variety locally called PUYAT.
Fruits can vary in size flesh is thick, orange color.
Seeds are small, flat, i doubt they can be viable. being so flat the amount of edible flesh is really great.
Very little if any smell (pleasant NOT stinky!) super creamy texture, exceedingly sweet with so complex taste and many overtones similar i'd say to a great whisky cream.
I could eat them non-stop
NOTE: for anybody asking....... I didn't bring any seeds home!Now is NOT season and i want only fresh seeds from the best varieties harvested during the top of season.
Im planning another trip in august 2018