Talisia esculenta

[Guanabanus]

No fruits.

[Tetsu0]

You know I just asked sadhu about this and he said that all of the Talisia genus is dioecious. It definitely needs a mate then for fruit. I'm guessing melicoccus pollen wouldn't be cross compatible with it but who knows you could give it a try.

[Guanabanus]

My genip hasn't flowered.

[Felipe]

My talisia is very slow growing. I'm loosing my patience... 

[Tetsu0]

Here is my little fellow. It has been a slow grower in the first year. Now I'm starting to fertilize and lowering the ph.

Har, I hope the story of your pitomba is a joke.. 23 years and no fruit!! 

My talisia is very slow growing. I'm loosing my patience... 

That's not bad at all for three years growth. How old is it entirely?

I feel like I should be detoured from acquiring seeds and growing them, but that ain't going to stop me.

[fruitlovers]

My talisia is very slow growing. I'm loosing my patience... 

Hang on! It may be encouraging to know that i've seen them fruit here guite small, about 4-5 feet tall.

[Tetsu0]

 Hi,

I thought they tasted OK to nice, with a lemony/tangerine ring to it,
until you reach the seed. The seeds had a weird taste, even without
biting into them.

Problem is that there is very little flesh and it clings to the stone.

Easy to grow in low pH conditions, otherwise it will get chlorotic,
as opposed to mamoncillo, which grows fine in my kind of soil.


I still have a couple of plants of those seeds that Tabbydan is talking about. So, they're
nearing 10 years old (yikes). I have neglected them but they are quite stubborn and
won't die.



Never seen it again for sale, here.

I have heard from someone experienced with these fruits that most of the talisia fruits including esculenta have a peanut like flavor. Maybe that's the weird taste you are experiencing? It must be the seed causing this, the flesh is so thin too I imagine it's impossible to avoid it.

[Guanabanus]

I grew up eating Talisia in northern Brazil, and also tried one from Belize.  I have no idea where this peanut butter flavor notion comes from with these fruits being so sour.

[fruitlovers]

I grew up eating Talisia in northern Brazil, and also tried one from Belize.  I have no idea where this peanut butter flavor notion comes from with these fruits being so sour.

I ate them in Manaus, also here in Hilo. Don't remember them tasting of peanut butter or being sour. My recollection, maybe rusty, was that they tasted a bit like longan.

[Tetsu0]

It wasn't peanut butter he said it tasted like, he said that most talisia fruit including esculenta had an underlying flavor that is peanut like. Presumably raw peanuts. Raw peanuts taste completely different from roasted ones, and practically nothing like peanut butter. Have you guys even had raw peanuts? Without salt or flavoring?

I'm just wondering if this weird taste experienced near the seed may be that.

[Guanabanus]

I stand corrected.  I did have raw peanut a time or two when I was a kid.