The Tropical Fruit Forum

Congrats Don an Miguel.

Don: when it fruits, it would be great if you share some seeds of it to many people around the world so they will have the precocious e. florida too.

Really great story Adam! I loved seeing the cute videos of Earl sampling rare fruits. It's nice to get a different sort of viewpoint from a different species on what fruits taste the best.
I gotta a feeling though that some other forum members that post threads like "Death to all squirrels" aren't gonna love you. Keep em away from Earl! 

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Quote from: huertasurbanas on August 24, 2015, 10:10:42 AM

Great greenman62, just tell me in what species are you interested in, and I will tell you when can I get seeds for you

i have been wanting M. Pugens for a while now.

i am looking for something that has a long fruiting season
that i can also grow in zone 9b
4 years or less to fruit would be excellent.

guaviyú: I will have seeds by january, they fruit in 4 to 7 years from seed and can resist -10ºC or so, not long fruiting season... 1 month or so... but some plants use to fruit in other months so if you have many plants, maybe you can harvest fruits for 3 or 4 months

Some varieties are not good enought, but I have a good one, big, sweet and juicy.

i already have several on the list (strawberry guava, feijoa, Jabo, surinam cherry, starcherry, jackfruit, lychee, starfruit)

Ok, nice species!

here are a few i looked at.

myrcianthes pungens

hexachlamis edulis

ubajay: we planted about 18 trees in the food forest, they are about 2m tall and I hope they will fruit in the next few years, I dont know if our variety is good or not. If not, we will try to graft a better ubajay into all these trees.

campomanesia xanthocarpa

Just 1 living tree, about 3 years old or so, sprouting new leaves after a rare die back...

Eugenia repanda

many planted in the food forest, and many in pots and 1 planted in my yard... will have fruits/seeds by january, it's a small fruit but very nice (black fruit) and it can produce in the shade too.

Like guaviyú: if you have many plants with different fruiting times, will have a long season, that's what happens here.

eugenia pyriformis

for now, it's my favourite native fruit tree, I have just 1 planted in the backyard, 6 years old or more, it uses to fruit by march or so I think....

it's very difficult in Argentina to buy one of them, almost no nursery grow it

(campomanesia guazumifolia

beautiful tree, very nice flower perfume, the fruit is very good to me, but small and not too much pulp... anyway, I hope it can get better with the years... the fruit fly likes it very much


All of these species hould be frost hardy to -7ºC or so, like surinam cherry

This winter at the food forest, the -6º C frosts didnt damaged them

wow, Cassio, I cant believe it... that fruit looks tasty too, I wonder if it would be good enought

part sun or full sun also killed my small jabos, so I am doing it in the shade now, and they are ok

oh... so... the seller is a mess!!! but I will end up with many jabo species... so this is not a problem to me... yes, the greenhouse is an small but nice place to be, I will have to set up a good shade cloth soon

Hi

We have "good" news... these seedlings are NOT daughters or nieces of the bigger trees I bought... they are from a fruit harvested from a planted tree (she said it has "bigger leaves, very different") that was a gif of the paraguayan father of the seller... so... these seedlings just look different from the older 7 years old trees...

now, this explains why you were a bit confused about its ID: the big ones look like peluda de alagoas, and the small seedlings look like m. cauliflora!

So... the fruit I tried could be from a m. cauliflora...


And: Paraguay seems to be a source of many jabo species, now I have at least 3 of them. (these are the good news)

* Tomorrow I will try to post pics of 2 bigger seedlings (15cm tall), more than 1 year old, that are sisters of these other smaller ones. The seller gave them to me as a gift, and I did not put more attention to them... till now! The thing is: they should look like m. cauliflora...

Thanks Mike, my place at Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, is orange, so it would be similar to Florida, USA, but mine is a darker orange...I see Australia is very hot...

One month into the real greenhouse, temps can fall to 5ºC or less during night (but It has a stove under the table so it doesnt get under 15ºC or so) and use to be 35º C max during the day... the seedlings are under some woods (an inverted wooden box) that provides shade. One of them is doing better, but they will be both fine.

I am posting this to compare with grimals, as Adam said this species is similar to "peluda de alagoas", I am lucky to have a grimal (from Tomas) sprouted and recently growing near to them

This is the myrciaria sp. I will call it "Esther 2" from Paraguay seedling



And this is the -younger- grimal or peluda de alagoas:




I can see they are similar

I am looking for remarkable edible leaves perennial crops, for instance chaya and chipilin,

"It’s considered an invasive plant, and it's banned in Australia and Hawaii,"

Is there some one in this forum growing chipilin (Crotalaria longirostrata) or having seeds of it?

Also, I am looking for chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius) seeds and oil and/or protein crops as for instance macadamia.


I grow almost 80 species of tropical fruit trees and will have seeds of some of them in the future for exchange:

guaviyú, (myrcianthes pungens
arazá rojo, (p. catleianum var sabine
arazá amarillo, (p. catleianum var lucidum
guayaba amarilla-rosa, (psidium guajava
tamarillo naranja, (solanum betaceum
feijoa / falso guayabo, (acca sellowiana
sete capotes, (campomanesia guazumifolia
uvaia, (eugenia pyriformis
ñangapiré negro, (eugenia repanda
pitanga Roja, (eugenia uniflora
pitanga Negra-Black, (eugenia uniflora
guayabas, (psidium guajava
guayaba cubana 1/2k, (psidium guajava
cerella/cereja do rio grande, (eugenia involucrata
cambui-roxo, (eugenia candolleana
Pitangatuba, (eugenia selloi/neonitida
Pitomba, (eugenia luchnatiana
grumixama aña, (eugenia itaguahiensis
grumixama, (eugenia brasilensis
pacurí/bacuparí, (rheedia brasilensis
jaboticaba sabara?, (myrciaria jaboticaba
jaboticaba sp. similar peluda de alagoas, (myrciaria sp.
jaboticaba azul / blue grape, (myrciaria vexator
jaboticaba híbrido / precoce / rojo, (myrciaria cauliflora X aureana
jaboticaba grimal, (myrciaria sp./Peluda-de-alagoas
jaboticaba caipirinha, (myrciaria jaboticaba
jaboticaba paulista, (myrciaria cauliflora?
cabelluda/jabo amarillo, (myrciaria glazioviana
jaboticaba de Misiones, (myrciaria sp. coronata?
jaboticaba de Corrientes, (myrciaria sp. coronata?
jaboticaba de Jujuy/Misiones, (myrciaria sp. silvestre acido
chamba/palillo, (campomanesia lineatifolia
chirimoya, (Annona cherimola
atemoya, (annona cherimoya x squamosa
sugar apple, (annona squamosa
biribá, (rollinia deliciosa
aratiku, (rollinia sylvatica
pawpaw, (asimina triloba
guanabana de montaña, (annona montana
guanabana gigante de Colombia, (annona muricata
anona roja, (annona reticulata
anona roja cubana, (annona reticulata
guabiroba, (campomanesia xanthocarpa
araça-una, (psidium eugeniaefolia
arazá serrano, (psidium longipetiolatum
Araçá-cinzento, (Psidium australe
Psidium guyanense,(Psidium guyanense
Brazilian Guava / Wild Guava, (psidium guineense
ubajay, (hexachlamis edulis
anacahuita/arrayán, (blepharocalyx salicifolius
guayabo blanco, (Eugenia uruguayensis
guayabo amarillo/cambuizinho-vermelho, (Myrcia selloi
guayabo colorado, (Myrcianthes cisplatensis
murta, (Myrceugenia glaucescens
black zapote, (Diospyros digyna
cedar bay cherry, (Eugenia reinwardtiana
kei apple [seeds], (Dovyalis caffra
Natal plum, (Carissa macrocarpa
baobab, (adansonia digitata
spanish cherry, (mimusops elengi
governor's plum, (flacourtia indica
simpson's stopper, (myrcianthes fragans
Jambolan / jambul, (Syzygium_cumini
pomarrosa, (Syzygium jambos
Blue Lilly Pilly, (Syzygium oleosum
longan, (Dimocarpus longan
tamarindo, (Tamarindus indica
gudeim, (grewia tenax
jack fruit, (Artocarpus heterophyllus
cempejack, (Artocarpus heterophyllus x integer
moringa, (moringa oleifera
cas guava, (Psidium friedrichsthalianum
caju - cashew, (Anacardium occidentale
zapote blanco, (casimiroa edulis
maracuyá, (passiflora edulis
vanilla passionfruit,  (passiflora antioquiensis
carambola, (Averrhoa carambola
aguaymanto, (Physalis peruviana
chachafruto, (Erythrina edulis
lychee, (Litchi chinensis

Hi, myrtaceae and others from Mata Atlántica cannot be grown from seed in full sun, at least, in my experiencie

couldnt it be a malpighia?