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Myrica rubra
TropicalFruitHunters:
As many of you know, this fruit tree has been in various forums in the past years and unfortunately has been largely unobtainable. There is a group from the Cloudforest forum who found a nursery in China that will supposedly ship plants to the US. There seems to be a minimum order of 100 plants. Apparently, the group did place an order but no further info is available just now.
One thing to keep in mind and I dearly hope these guys don't discover this the hardway, but there is nothing between China and the USA that is going to help these guys out if this shipment goes into the toilet...or they just take the money and don't even ship. The guy said they got permits for California but that is still no guarantee with USDA...as we know.
Here is the nursery website for anyone intersted in browsing. http://www.fruit-trees-nursery.com/
lycheeluva:
the cloudforest group are supposed to receive their order this month- so we should know more soon. if it goes through, id love for this forum to put together an order. they have seedless lychee trees and couple of other cultivars not available here. i would def put in an order for 6-7 trees if we could put an order together, perhaps with delivery to florida where the majority of us live.
TropicalFruitHunters:
Sounds something like Sheehan would love to spearhead!!!! ;D
TriangleJohn:
I have a few. One is a small bush sized plant that I have in the ground with protection. It is a rooted cutting from a seedling grown from seed stock imported from Taiwan or Okinawa. The original bush lived for 3-4 years in the ground here in Raleigh before dying (I wasn't aware of it until after it died and I believe it died in the summer). Its leaves are not like the Yamamomo you see in photos online (a bit more serrated). We are having a very mild winter and yet it is still suffering. I think it will survive but there will be winter damage.
I have three potted grafted plants that came recently from Japan. One appears to have died, one is having a few problems but looks fine. The third one is doing great with a great deal of new growth. I have no idea what the rootstock is, it is sprouting leaves and they don't look like any sort of Myrica to me. These three are being wintered over in my simple hoophouse/greenhouse where I store my citrus and large tropicals.
They were legally imported by someone that was buying and importing trees for research (not fruit tree research). He was going to Japan and I casually mentioned that I was searching for named cultivars of Yamamomo and he said if the dealers he was working with had any he would pick them up for me and send them through USDA with his stuff. He surprised me with these three. He is also the person that gave me the rooted cutting from the seed grown tree a couple of years ago. He took a lot of cuttings to be back ups in case I kill any of the ones I bought. I haven't seen him in months and haven't heard how his plants are doing.
It took me five years to track down my first plant. I've ordered seeds from China in the past and none of them sprouted and I did every trick in the book.
These trees are common roadside trees in zone 7 Japan and China but they don't fruit much that far north. Prime fruit production is in the same zones that grow Satsuma citrus.
I assume the grafted ones are females and I hope the one in the ground is male.
Jacob13:
Hello Friends,
I am not sure if some of you Remember, but I was going to put together a goup order like this about a year ago. They had the Myrica Rubra, Maha Chanok Mango tree, No Mai Tze Lychee, and various other cultivars that are largely unavailable in the US.
However, there were many Red Flags that resulted in me canceling the order. The biggest being that the only method of payment he would accept was Western Union. He claimed to be the biggest exporter of Fruit trees in his region to the rest of the World, and on the other hand said that his business didn't accept Credit Card payment, nor Paypal. I obviously thouht this to be pretty wierd that for a business of that size, or at least what he claimed it to be, not to accept Credit Card payment was pretty hard to believe.
He also began with something like a 500 tree minimum order, and some other exorbitant import Fee. When I told him I couldn't buy 500 trees, nor pay the ridiculously high import fee, we parted ways. Then he miraculously got back to me, and told me that because of some new trade agreement, the import fee was no longer required, and that there was only a 100 tree minimum order. I thanked him for the information and told him that 100 trees was still too many and that I wasn't interested. Again, we parted ways. Shortly thereafter he got back to me and told me that he now had a new minimum order. He said that he would ship to me with a $250 minimum order.
After that discussion, I thought $250 would be doable with a Group order. So, I proceeded to speak with the Forum folk to see who was interested. During this time, he became very impatient and very insistent that I send the money right away and would accept payment via Western Union. Again, I found it hard to believe that a business his size, or what he claimed it was, did not use Credit Cards, and only accepted payment via Western Union. I mean come on, he claimed to ship 1000's of trees all over the world and was one of the biggest suppliers around. So the fact that he was really sweating me over a measly $250 also seemed strange for a business that was supposedly so big. Also, there is that thing about bringing trees into California, so even if he was legit, that was no guarantee that they wouldn't be seized at Customs
All of these were Red Flags for me and a bit too big of a risk with other peoples' money so I decided not to move forward. Hopefully, the group that has ordered from Jason Nursery has good luck and will receive the trees. That would be so Great! I just thought I would share my experience I had dealing with this Nursery.
Jacob
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