The Tropical Fruit Forum

SEEDS AVAILABLE, ill be sending soon-

-Garcinia magnifolia "madroño"  from the colombian chocó.  $2 each
5-6 cm fruits, sweet to sub-acid.  good edible pulp ratio, 26%.
- Garcinia sp. 'lindero' $2 ea
-Annona conica  $3 each.   tasty pulp.
-Porcelia nitidifolia  from the peruvian amazon.  nice sweet pulp.  $2 each
-Clavija sp.  from nearby at about 1800 m elevation.  $1 each.  unbranched, large leaves, ornamental and edible.  seeds, and fruits, larger than other clavijas ive seen, like a small tangerine.
-Passiflora popenovii  'granadilla de quijos' $3 each
-Bactris guineensis  $1 ea  'corozo'
-Eugenia victoriana  $0.50 ea.   aroma like yellow passion fruit
-Browneopsis ucayalina   ornamental.  $4 ea.
-soon- mulchi, giant mulchi, dwarf mulchi, Plinia nana, Myrciaria tenella
-soon- a new Myrtaceae, what i call Plinia(?) sp. ‘yasuni.’  it is from yasuní national park in the ecuadorian amazon.  it is not P. yasuniana.
the purple fruits are 1-1.5 cm, sweet pulp is very highly aromatic and delicious.  a great fruit. $3 ea

if you send an email to me to guaycuyacu at gmail i will send you information about ordering.

i have had cherapu trees producing for some time.  about 5 or 6 years ago i grafted a female scion onto a male tree.   i did the graft at around chest height.  since then the grafted tree has continued to grow, but only horizontally.  it is still the same height as when i did the graft.  it has expanded outward, but slowly, and has produced, but not a lot. 
which other grafted garcinia spp. behave this way?

most people who send tropical seeds routinely send them packed in some kind of damp medium.  they often germinate in transit and if all is well they arrive alive and well.  certainly this is usually the best way to do it.   but i have found that many tropical seeds which people consider recalcitrant can in fact be dried and stored.  here is a list of some of the seeds i have dried and stored for at least 2 months, in each case more than once, with good germination afterwards-
jakfruit, champedak, marang, pedalai
salacca affinis, wallichiana
baccaurea spp.
inga edulis
annona spp.
eugenia spp.
american garcinia spp.
some asian garcinia spp.
langsat/duku
litsea garciae

being able to send and receive dried instead of germinating seeds is a big advantage to me.  because of the mail service here, my outgoing packages typically take 1-2 months to arrive, incoming 1-3 months.  germinated seeds usually die after that long in transit.