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Fruitlovers I am pretty sure there is only starapples here and no congenors with good fruit although I have only had fruitof the copper one.There must be a good deal of phenotypic plasticity and well as a broad genetic base.The giant purple partial seedless one at the kamerunga resaerch station was brought over by horticultural scientists in the 70's.It was much like a very large flattened haitian with only the occasional seen.I don't know its source or if any prgeny survives.
Fruitlovers you are getting me and BMc mixed up he is about 1100 miles down the road from me in the subtropics.I am the one who said I would not have a name for those without any bronzy colour under the leaves because I don't know that fruit.I also said there is some variation in the depth of this bronzy colour on the underside of the leaves.By here I really mean 15 to 19 latitude on the east coast.
so what exactly is the stink parapple?is there a botanical name or varietal name?I wonder if it's more cold tolerant than the common ones?Edit: Chrysophyllum auratum is the name on Oscar's initial post, is there another one?
here is a pic of the pink starappleits not as healthy as it should be as it has been in a pot for too long and has just gone into ground and then gets hit with a few days of 100kph wind gusts. Fruits are small, light pink and green, few seeds and taste like condensed milk crossed with normal star apple. They have a bit of latex, though not so much you'd complain because the flavour makes it worthwhile.
Trees I have seen and heard of have been much smaller than normal star apples. Is this your experience too Oscar?A grower here has one at the back of his house that looks like a regular small sized tree, whereas his Haitian out the front yard is a monster.Flesh is kind of 'milky' from memory. Maybe a bit firmer than some almost jelly like starapples, but not by that much.I'm sure its the same as Peter S's trees. He has the full set and is incahoots with others that have it.
Does the fruit have any latex?