The Tropical Fruit Forum

Many seeds ordered never got a final answer!

So, is cambucá one of those plants that when it's small grows very slowly
and then at some point suddenly takes off and grows lots faster?

Is it self-fertile or do you need more than one plant to get a good fruit set?

Paul M.
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Lujan and Campo Ramon looked the best out of my Plinias during winter.  Barely even dropped a couple leaves at most.

I did review the info on Carlos's website. His fruit is shiny, skinny like a wilson long neck (popinoe). The Russell fruits I showed above is fatter, skin doesn't shine, and is creamy and very good tasting is what I hear. The tree is growing at the person's parents' house, and he has been eating the fruits for a long time and says it is a very good tasting avocado.

Carlos needs to fiind another source, his doesn't look like it to me. But, it could be that this Russell growing in Hawaii  (purchased at nursery) may be a seedling tree so that may be the reason these fruits look so much larger/fatter, and does not have that shinny green skin.

Notice that Carlos's avocado fruit is shinny green with no dots, the photos of the fruits above have small dots on the outside of the skin.

I saw the fruit I posted of the Marcus Pumpkin, it had no fibers. The person who grows this tree said it is creamy, sweet, and tastes good. You must have had a bad one. The inside of the large fruit is yellow, like a Hass, but much more flesh to eat.