Is this the Giant Cherry of Rio Grande?...or just normal?...Pics

[Miguel.pt]

Hello all.

My Eug.involucrata is fruiting right now and I have one single tree fruiting so no others to compare...

My questions are:
Do you think I have here the normal version of the Cherry Rio Grande or could this be the giant form?... can someone post pics of fruits of the giant form to compare with mine?





Anyway if someone has seeds of the giant form available for trade I would like to try it.
Do you know if they came true from seed?

No doubt I am very happy with my tree and fruits... just curious if there can be even better ones.

thanks in advance
Miguel

[FlyingFoxFruits]

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=2812.0

Miguel...nice looking fruits...they sure look large, but I'm not certain if they're giant.

There's some photos of the giant form in this thread above.  The leaves seem much larger on the giant form...with more prominent punctate glands on the undersides of the leaves (more visible small dots)

[Miguel.pt]

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=2812.0

Miguel...nice looking fruits...they sure look large, but I'm not certain if they're giant.

There's some photos of the giant form in this thread above.  The leaves seem much larger on the giant form...with more prominent punctate glands on the undersides of the leaves (more visible small dots)

Thanks Adam!

But now I just have to have one of the giants!... this species does seem to feel at home here... it seems to even like the cold we have!

I'll start looking at the leaves of different plants to see if I can detect some differences and properly identify one of the giants.

Funny thing about my tree is that last year fruits were almost all seedless and smaller fruits... but the final fruit of last year season was seeded and it was much bigger than those on the anterior photo... maybe the fruit was just a freak or the plant just putted all the energy on that single seed/fruit and that made it grow much more (?)... I don't have pics of that last year fruit but as far as I remember it was even bigger than the "ben's beaut" fruits pictured on the attached post... 

But this year there are no seedless fruits and all fruits have one or two seeds... but none seems to grow to the final huge proportions of that last year single fruit I remember... that's why I'm confused...

Also all my fruits have a "pear shape" form... I've never seen "Cherry Rio Grande" elongated fruits like those pictured on Lorenzi's blue book representing the giant form... more confusion...

[jb_fla]

That is about the same size as my CORGs, though mine turn dark purple when ripe.