The Tropical Fruit Forum

My Bruce canistel tree, which was heavily loaded with flower buds, is now in the middle of blooming, if you can call it blooming. Some buds form greenish-white petals that never fully open and eventually drop off. Others form a single thin rod that excretes a rich nectar that smells like honey. No bees are anywhere near the plant although ants are crawling all around it.

Anyway, I was wondering what these two forms of flower were, how they get pollinated, and what a canistel fruit looks like when it's just begun to set (meaning the way to tell that pollination was successful). Thanks in advance.

How is your canistel doing. Have you found the pollination pattern? I have exact the same situation as you described in your post several years ago.

Thanks for the reply.  Here are some more pics. The tree was  neglected for a few monthes. It's a young tree but does look scary now. I don't know what fungi look like. I use fingernail to peel the black thing a little, inside was all green thing which I don't know what it is either. Has the ship sailed?