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Re: Fruit tree identification
« Reply #25 on: January 06, 2013, 03:29:40 AM »
Not a problem to keep four, or ten or whatever, but needing only one is good to know.  So I grabbed some flowers before sundown, from just one branch, and took a few pix:











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Re: Fruit tree identification
« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2013, 04:03:03 AM »
not moneykeyfish but yeah dovyalis spp are dioecious=male or female flowers in separate plants.

i have hebecarpa,caffra and others sold as hebecarpa that i'm not really sure of until they fruit...i would keep like 4 until they fruit.

If tropical apricot is really dioecious then it doesn't need both sexes to fruit as i have a lone tree and it fruits fine. Yes seedlings can have great fruits. One seedling here has sweeter fruits than the Prodigal cultivar i got long time ago from Florida. Prodigal is nice though because it is seedless, self fruiting, and almost totally thornless.
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Re: Fruit tree identification
« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2013, 02:23:59 PM »
Looks like some Ficus sp...
one can always identify a Ficus by the unique to the genus method of how all leaf buds appear and unfurl
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Re: Fruit tree identification
« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2013, 10:48:51 PM »
I did say I would post pix of my dovyalis, so here they are.  As far as the pictures of the flowers I posted, it looks to me that there are two different flowers on the one plant, and I'm supposing that they are indeed male and female, though I don't know which is which.  I would guess that the ones on the left are the female, since there are so many more of them.












 

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