A park revisited

[Mike T]

Maprang mayon chid



Nutmeg



Kepel new foliage



A small fruit selection from the park.Unfortunately many young fruit are removed by city council to discourage urban foraging but only up to a point.

[cyclonenat]

what types of fruit are they?

[Mike T]

Nat they are cacao,buddhas hand,flacourtia inermis,randia formosa,star gooseberry and I don't know with the small red one that is sweet sour.

[cyclonenat]

wow thats awesome all that fruit looks yummy,wish we had parks like that here, so jealous

[Mike T]

There are signs identifying some trees with most missing or in disrepair.All the Garcinia dulcis I saw last time were gone and they would not yet have been ripe.I don't know the identity of the red berry below which was next to the flacourtia inermis but foliage was smaller than F.i. and fruits were larger and sweet sour.

[BMc]

The Evia tuberosa is supposedly Spondias tuberosa.
Cant help with the flacourtia, but the native Flacourtia sp. shipton's flat is pretty good, and very ornamental.

[fruitlovers]

The Evia tuberosa is supposedly Spondias tuberosa.
Cant help with the flacourtia, but the native Flacourtia sp. shipton's flat is pretty good, and very ornamental.

Yes, Imbu is the common name of Spondias tuberosa. Seems like genus Evia has been abandoned.

[Mike T]

BMc the flacourtia may be native and Flacourtia sp. endeavour river is another possibility.I shall return to go on a pluckathonan the G.macrophylla and the imbu are on my list.Thanks guys.

[FloridaGreenMan]

Good stuff Mike. Keep posting those photos.  Local cities in South Florida have made an effort to plant fruit trees in some parks and I have attended government meetings to promote this idea. We have a park close to my home that has 20 or 30 fruiting trees but they are not properly fertilized or maintained. There is always a combative attitude in government here pitting natives versus exotics. I think there is room for both.         

[Tim]

I wish we could replace the many dog parks here for the likes of yours... how were the star gooseberries? sour?

[Camillo Alexis]

Has the nutmeg bore fruit and how old is it, Nutmeg is one or our national fruits here in Grenada.

[HMHausman]

Great post.  Especially interesting to me is the size of the nutmeg and the maprang. 

[Ethan]

Wow Mike, beautiful trees.

Camillo Alexis, to you make juice from the fruit pulp or just use the spices inside?

[Mike T]

CA the nutmeg pumps out the fruit as there is a male branch grafted on. The carpet of nutmeg seedlings beneath it get mowed and zeroed on a regular basis. I can't remember if I have seen a nutmeg tree locally more than maybe 20ft.Maprang can be 50 feet in Thailand but here they are younger and 25 feet is perhaps the tallest, but they are very wide.

I really should go and visit that park to see if the next flush of kepels are ripening yet. They are supposed to be a really good selection. I should try to get some nutmegs as well.