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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is Pungara dioecious?
« on: November 15, 2023, 06:19:00 PM »https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Garcinia+macrophylla
A dioecious species, both male and female forms usually need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[336
]. At least some dioecious Garcinia species, however, are able to produce fertile seed even in the absence of fertilization (asexual reproduction). Such seeds would be expected to be genetically identical to the parent[1798
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Inaccurate information. Have a lone fruiting tree here and have harvested and sprouted seed from another lone tree that used to be at Naples Botanical Garden (sourced from Jim West) before hurricane Irma killed it.