The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi, two seeds sprouted from that only fantastic fruit I tasted and are doing fine, 8 cm tall, but just 6 leaves so far... very small trees for now, so they are into the house (we are almost in winter) in mini-greenhouses at min 18ºC, max 24ºC, with bad/low light (I cant do it better here)... we have now a nice greenhouse, but much cooler at night: maybe 3ºC... or near the stove: 10ºC...
a lot of sun in the day, and 31ºC max

I have a doubt: should I put them into the greenhouse now so they can grow faster, or will they burn in the hot sun?

In the past, I entered some small 1 year old red jabos to a greenshouse in the winter and they burned/dried with the sun... maybe it was the hot sun of the spring...

This is what the man wrote to me:

"I am quite sure that is Rollinia emarginata in this arboretum and botanical garden they are taken to test freshmen and the holder of the chair is a close friend of mine.
The signage (rollinia emarginata and the rest) was updated five years ago with the new classification. But I'm going to send everything (leaves, fruits, etc.) so you can identify them. I'll see and if there is something interesting I would add. I work here in the botanist garden, but in plant physiology. Greetings."

So good! let us know about the taste

sorry huertas,
i made a mistake..

it looks like my rollinia salicifolia, not my rollinia sylvatica!

Ok, this other one too?

Thanks Adam: maybe the 2nd photo is not from the mother tree, maybe it's from the net, I will ask

I hope we have good news about it: it looks and "tastes" very good

got to finally taste this fruit today.

the flavor is very unique...hard to describe...

something like bubble gum, guava, and araca boi....(tart and sweet)

the fruits were the size of a dime or nickel at best...orange and slightly fuzzy. (makes me wonder if I actually have var. Littorails??)

definitely not a fruit everyone will enjoy....but I found my self eating more and more fruits...after getting over the flavor shock of the first one I tasted.

Thanks for reporting! I bought a plant from a woman at Misiones the last year and it's doing very fine, I hope to try a fruit in the next year, and will report too, maybe we have very different species

That Biribá looks so good! but under ripe? was it good?

I would like to taste one :-D We live "near", at least, in the same country.

The jaboticabas look different to the ones I tried (always excelent, sweet and acid): from Misiones, Corrientes and Buenos Aires (in fact, those were from a tree that came from Paraguay)

Congrats for your finding!

Oh, great to know it, thanks

Now I should say:

traditional/common fruits:

banana
apple
grapes
orange
tangerine

rare/native fruits:

uvaia
sete capotes
jaboticaba
guabiju
guava

I'm afraid they are coming, now I see no movement in the backyard, but this footprint and a more complete form, although unfinished.



should we go out?

I'm no expert on UFOs, or even believe in them until last week I saw that ghostly circle drawn on the bottom of the garden: it could not be the neighbor, he is someone who does not waste time on artistic things ... the only explanation comes from the stars.

Then, the orange tree invading that circle disappeared, and also a small mandarin tree: they were abducted. Later, a plum, an apricot, a cherry, a Guabiju and up a guava were lost ... and they were planted 1km away ... in a weekend house of my parents!

The next day I saw the posts ... or was them monoliths? fixed obsessively on earth: something was taking shape, something no one in our family could never understand. Would it be the rare fruit that attracted extraterrestrial life? It would be a landing strip for hungry aliens seeking chachafruto, Campomanesia lineatifolia, psidium longipetiolatum ! Were they too common to traditional and native fruit? Is that why the other trees had been abducted?


(circle drawn possibly by a UFO)


Gone are the days, and the circle on the ground also acquired a sandy surface, from a meteorite




Then I had a bad dream, a "tie interceptor" destroyed our home!





It was a frightening picture, I woke up restless at night: I slept very little, sick of gastroenteritis.



Yesterday morning, the image of Star Wars ship mysteriously haunted me, I sensed it was not referring to the past, but the near future.

Then, it came the inexplicable, see:




The dreamed forms began to materialize, my wife got nervous, he caught me, and when she went to the yard thought she saw a humanoid figure:



It occurs to me that "he" is a fan of Obi Wan Kenobi, he has a lightsaber in his hands: for sure.



They are equal ...




https://youtu.be/4Acqon0bttQ

We decided not to make contact of any kind, either 3rd or 4th, or anything, lest thing spread them gastroenteritis: an entire alien civilization might succumb, as the indigenous people of the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans.


In any case, if they were extraterrestrials, would be better "let them do"... they may want to share their advanced technology and we could benefit with it, and whether they were lunatics fans of Star Wars, well... will get tired when they realize that the wood and nylon spacecraft, would not fly.

The plan is like this: when they leave the backyard, this ship will be used like a greenhouse, a geodesic dome.



Updated, 05.25.2015, 19: 22 pm: it is dark and cold, they lit a light and continue to work, they are definitely not from "these lands/earth" ...

It seems a very remarkable species, producing pods as any legume, but with large beans, the size of a pingpong ball or more, very nutritious. I received 5 seeds from Colombia six months ago already germinated in the envelope, and have survived four trees that grow quickly. In three years may bear fruit.

Anyone else on this forum is cultivating this species or knows it?

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