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I have a questions for the experienced Mammea american campaigners.Do seedlings just turn out as half male and half female and you really need to graft to get a hermaphrodite?
what be typical fruiting season for mammea?
Here's the Fairchild Mammea grown at the garden. It's one of the best I have eaten and is mostly freestone. The tree is over 60 yrs old but has been battered by hurricanes and does not look that good any more. This fruit is really nice and needs to be planted and grown more. Very important to plant grafted ones from producing trees in order to avoid fruitless male trees. In the summer, it's a nice change of pace from mangos.
It has a good texture. The flavor is okay. Can't eating too much of the fruit get you sick though?
Quote from: FloridaGreenMan on September 28, 2012, 07:52:35 PMHere's the Fairchild Mammea grown at the garden. It's one of the best I have eaten and is mostly freestone. The tree is over 60 yrs old but has been battered by hurricanes and does not look that good any more. This fruit is really nice and needs to be planted and grown more. Very important to plant grafted ones from producing trees in order to avoid fruitless male trees. In the summer, it's a nice change of pace from mangos. It has a good texture. The flavor is okay. Can't eating too much of the fruit get you sick though?
I got some seeds from a trip to Florida some years ago the year I got the seeds the local squirrels thought I invited them to a smorgasboard. That did in the seedlings.I've heard some are rather insipid and others rather tasty, never had a fruit of this. Definitely a mangosteen relative with an impressively large seed. I hope to try a fruit sometime.
hellosome photos taken this morninghttp://imageshack.us/g/1/9786876/
I have never heard of an insipid one, maybe it was spoiled. Good ones really so taste like apricots and bad ones are just bland.
i planted some seeds from a friend who got them from Chris Rollins.I wonder how long to bear from seed? 4-6 yrs?they're growing pretty fast...already a foot tall and less than 3 months old.j planted 4 so I'd be sure to have a male and a female...and maybe even some self pollinating ones!