The Tropical Fruit Forum

Today I found out this is Garcinia lancifolia.

Please, Can somebody identify this lime/lemon?

Congratulations Oscar!! I envy you. Regards, Chandramohan.

Instead of buying two refractometers, one of 0 - 30% and another of 0 - 60%,  buy one of 0 - 30% and another of 30 - 60%. Would give better resolution thru out the range. This is what I used to use.

One mangosteen from my grafted tree. Ofcourse there were only two fruits.

You have to remove the flower bracts? one by one until they  are pale yellow. The maroon ones are very astringent and bitter. Once you arrive at the pale yellow, you should cut it into thin slices of 1/8 th inch thick. Then you saute it with some chopped chillies, garlic and ginger, with necessary salt and water. Cook on a low flame for about 10 minutes. Season it with mustard, chopped dry chillies and curry leaves in a little oil.

Dear friends, Sorry for not replying earlier, but I live in a place where i cannot get an internet connection. So I have to wait till I come to my Home in Calicut. The fruit is on a seedling tree I bought from a nursery about six years ago. I had bought two seedlings and the fruits  on both the trees are sweet. The fruits are quite sweet!! I got 10 fruits from one tree and 2 fruits from the other. But I got only 6 seeds! May be next year I will have a better crop, with seeds to spare.Chandramohan.

The plant is called 'Ankolam' in Malayalam and has medicinal properties.

Thanks everybody. I have two more in the ground. I straightened out mine after the second set of leaves came out skewed, by tying it to a post planted close to the stem. I had stopped making grafts, after all the information on the Internet saying it would be still about 9 years before fruiting. Now I am going to graft more seedlings!!

The nearest plant that I know of is about 30 kms away.

Mike, Could you please tell me how much GA3 to use on different Annonas? Thanks.

Thanks everybody.The seedlings are growing in plastic bags of 1.5 gal, in potting soil containing coir pith. The temp here during the day goes up to 91 o F for the past almost one month, and night time temp is around 80 o F. Since it is very dry here I have been watering the seedlings every day. I have not used any fertilizer yet. I am attaching photos taken yesterday.

Photo of Elaeagnus latifolia collected from the wild.