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Very rare seeds, great fruit like a cross between a lychee and rambutan. Extremely sweet and very similar in appearance to lychee but more oblong in shape.

Seeds $2.50 each plus postage. PM me if interested

Family: Sapindaceae

Synonyms: Nephelium cochinchinense, Nephelium longana var. hypoleuca
Korlan is a native of South East Asia.  This fruit found growing wild in most South Eastern Asian countries.  The trees are also planted in some countries particularly Thailand and Malaysia.  The fruits are also offered for sale at local fruit shops at some places.
 Korlan has, however, not travelled to other countries outside South East Asia.

Description: 

An evergreen tree, upto 30 m tall, trunk 1.40 m in dia, with buttress upto 1.5 m tall.

            Leaves, 1-5-jugate, petiole 3-16 mm cm long, petiolules 5-11 mm, leaflets 6.5-30 cmx2-8 cm, 2-4.5 times as long as wide.
Inflorescence terminal and axillary, male and female flowers sometimes in the same inflorescence; petals 0-6, stamens 7-10, pistil 2-3-merous.

            Fruit ellipsoid, 2-3 cmx1.5 – 2.25 cm, densely warty, warts upto 1.5 mm high, red., borne on loose pendant clusters.

Utilization:

Korlan fruits, which are like litchi fruits, are eaten.  The seed is said to be poisonous.  The fruits are also offered for sale at some local markets.
Cultivation:

New plants of korlan can be raised from seed.  Asexual propagation can be done by air layering.

I have not received seeds from Brazil, but I have received seeds from China. Note that it is hard to get seeds from outside the country, and they may not get to you at all. I hear that it is harder in Florida, and takes longer, than many other states. It took 2 full months for me to get some of my seeds - and I stress SOME, because I then got a letter in the mail from the government stating that they had confiscated my seeds and that I could be prosecuted for trying to import something unidentifiable or not allowed. That was scary, because all I did was order packs of non-threatening items like chamomile and lemon balm for less than $1 each including shipping off of Amazon. I had no idea they were even being shipped from out of the country until I didn't get them and asked the company for assistance.

So while this doesn't answer your question, consider that because you are in Florida and these are agricultural products, you may need to tack on an extra month to your expectation. And you might lose them and incur some sort of (minor?) legal problem if you are somehow breaking the law by importing them. (I assume this is helped if the company labels them properly, which I also assume perhaps mine did not.)  I had some pillows shipped from Indonesia and had the same problem, which the seller had warned me of. Indeed, I got them a full month later than the company's shipments to any other state.

Korlan is Nephelium, so i'm guessing it's like rambutan and has male, female, and possibly hermaphrodite trees. So you are going to have to plant more than one tree probably to stand any chance of getting fruit. Best would be to plant at least 3.

I'm pleased to announce that Flying Fox Fruits will be at the Manatee Rare Fruit Council Plant Sale, May 18,  2014 (10am-4pm).

Here is the website with all of the details.
http://www.mrfc.org/PlantSale.aspx

I'm going to bring some of the rare stuff that I've been saving for this sale!  There should be a decent selection of Annonas, Garcinias, Eugenias, Pouterias and Myrciarias!

Cannot ship trees to CA, AZ, or TX

This is an auction to help raise money for the forum. The money raised will go towards hosting the forum, making t-shirts, and creating a not for profit organization to run the forum under.

I will be listing a few trees at a time and once they sell I will add more.

Please either PM or post your bid and I will update the current bid. We don't mind shipping the trees as long as the winning bidder pays for shipping.

Be the FIRST to own and plant the GALAXY mango!! Donated Pine Island Nursery (Pick up will be in Davie at Bender's Grove)
Current Bid: $100

Received my Emerald Mango tree today. A little top trimming was necessary to fit it in the shipping box
but it arrived in good shape. Put it in a container as soon as I arrived home and set it out in a light rain.

Thanks to all who conducted the auction and everyone who bid.

Michael



Auction Ends: Friday night (midnight) January 31st



Ended Auctions:

Grafted bacupari (I think it's actually an achachairu)
Winning Bid: $50
Winning Bidder: Rtreid

25 gallon grafted Pantin mamey
Winning Bid: $125
Winning Bidder: cbss_daviefl

Lakoocha seedling (2 in one pot)
Winning Bid: $25
Winning Bidder: cbss_daviefl

Pitangatuba seedling
Winning Bid: $25
Winning Bidder: Rtreid

Grafting Kit
Winning Bid:  $35
Winning Bidder: Adam!

WEEK 2 WINNERS!

Grafted Emerald Mango
Winning Bid: $60
Winning Bidder: cmichael258

Grafted Galaxy Mango
Winning Bid: $160
Winning Bidder: Anonymous

Garcinia Madruno
Winning Bid: $30
Winning Bidder: cbss_daviefl

Yellow Grumichamma
Winning Bid: $30
Winning Bidder: SWRancher

Durian (Top Quality Cold Tolerant)
Winning Bid: $30
Winning Bidder: jsvand5

Grafted Angie Mango
Winning Bid: $60
Winning Bidder: Simon_grow

Agriculture expert here on the Island was able to get his Mangosteen seedlings to fruit in 5 years,  he told me he did lots of foliar spraying, of nutrients and plant hormones.  explained to me that the plants slow growth is due to it poor root system.  that part I already knew. so applying foliar spray routine, makes sense to help the plant get up in size.

The other problem with mangosteen is it still takes years for you to get a good production from them, yeah you may get 2-3 fruit off a 5 year old tree, next year you may get double that and so on. from what I have read, it takes a 10-12 year old trees to start reaching commercial production.   but for the back yard grower who cares right, Id be happy with a dozen fruit a year.

Quote from: cmichael258 on March 23, 2014, 09:14:53 PM

Quote from: luc on March 23, 2014, 01:15:37 PM

Quote from: cmichael258 on March 23, 2014, 09:50:20 AM

Anyone with an air-layered Mangosteen?

Airlayers do not work with mangosteen . In Honduras ( Lancetilla ) they approach graft the mangosteen .

Interesting. Top Tropical Nursery says their Mangosteens are airlayered.

Where does TT say that? Those plants look like plants they brought in from Hawaii, and those are all seedling plants.

I got some seeds in 1995.  One of those seeds produced a seedling that I raised in a pot to about 8 feet......pot height included.  I swear it could have begun blooming anytime.  It was in my shade house during Hurricane Wilma in 2005.  The bleachers from the next door high school were blown on top of my shade house and collapsed the whole structure.  The tree died shortly after as there was standing water and it was laying on its side in the water and under the structure.