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Had an amazing day at the Tenom Horticultural Park today. No one on staff could identify these 2 fruits in the edible fruit section of the park. I also do not know these fruits.
May be Canarium harveyii for the first one. Did you find the book "Fruits nuts and spices" willian W.W.Wong and Anthony Lamb (Department of agriculture Sabah, Malaysia) got it (January 2010) at Borneo book sevices Wisma merdeka gound floor KK ?
Second one looks maybe annonaceous. The way fruit are held reminds me of a few species from NQ like uvaria, pseudovaria, xylopia, meiogyne, melodorum etc.
First one is not Canarium harveyii. Sorry, my photos are so terrible. Here are some better ones with a Canarium species for comparison.The fruit is very good, sort of like a longan, but with a muskier flavour. I thought it might be Pometia pinnata, but the staff said it was not.seed of this unknown fruit along side a Canarium seed
Not Talisia, because no compound leaves.
I hear there are black Pometia pinnatas, but forget what the leaves look like? Probably Mike T can help you rule that one in or out?
Quote from: fruitlovers on January 25, 2013, 05:12:27 AMI hear there are black Pometia pinnatas, but forget what the leaves look like? Probably Mike T can help you rule that one in or out?arent the leaves of fijiian longan opposite? Does look like the fruit thoughhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/camillenoir/4253336520/#
There are not black fiji longans which are much larger,with a bicolor pebbly seed, a thick brittle shell and tranlucent yellow/beige flesh.They are a classy fruit and I am trying to lay my hands on.Black fiji longans from Samoa and New Britain are the good ones and I have been told there are black SE Asian fiji longans of lesser quality.The one in the picture looks like a lauraceae except for the translucent flesh.It has me beat.
I forgot this one, with leaves that look like a giant curry leaf tree. Fruit tastes like coffee fruit, ie kind of awful.
Quote from: red durian on January 05, 2013, 04:39:15 AMHad an amazing day at the Tenom Horticultural Park today. No one on staff could identify these 2 fruits in the edible fruit section of the park. I also do not know these fruits.Could this one be a type of Baccaurea? The leaf growth looks like my Burmese grape. But the fruit color is throwing me.
and maybe you would googling some pict of "gowok" (Syzygium polycephalum) just for some comparison in fruit shape...