If you could grow only one tree what would it be?

[Jaboticaba45]

With coronavirus quarantine I am very bored so I made this poll. 

[zands]

A money tree that fruits year round with always ripening $100 bills.

[Jaboticaba45]

A money tree that fruits year round with always ripening $100 bills.

   


If you ever find a tree that does that please propagate it and give it to me

[TomekK]

A cacao tree is as close as we’ll get to a money tree. Fruits do ripen year-round, and if it’s a rare variety, you may even be able to sell the pods for a hundred each!

[pineislander]

banana- most popular fruit in the world, for a reason.

[knlim000]

mango.

1. you can graft different variety of flavors onto it.
2. you can eat it when fruit is green or ripe, lots of versatility.
you can pick it, you can eat it with slat and chili, you can make it into dessert like sweet rice mango, mango Sala. or it it ripen as is.

[Tommyng]

A durian tree.

[SeaWalnut]

Id plant a walnut tree.

[Mark in Texas]

A money tree that fruits year round with always ripening $100 bills.

.....with sap that cures Covid-19 when mixed with anejo tequila.

Avocados, fer sure.

[gnappi]

It all depends...

If it fruited precociously and had a long season, I'd go for Jaboticaba. As it is Jabo do not fit that. Now if I could have three mango trees early, mid and late season I'd have only mango.  If only ONE stump were a valid pick, then Sapodilla.

[knlim000]

When I was 10yrs old, I drew a picture of a tree for my art subject .

The tree has all sort of fruits growing fruit on it:  banana, pineapple, orange, apple,cherry,etc..

[shaneatwell]

I think I'd go for a multigraft citrus with every kind of citrus (Pomelo, grapefruit, valencia orange, mandarin orange, blood orange, lemon, lime) and fruit every day.

[savemejebus]

I'm technically cheating because this is a vegetable rather than a tree, but 100% longevity spinach. Unlike every other vegetable or fruit tree, it grows year round in South Florida, it grows quickly, it spreads fast, and you can propagate just by throwing cuttings on the ground (as I've mistakenly learned thinking I was composting and instead was creating a new patch of the stuff). It's extremely healthy (probably more so than kale). We use it in salads, smoothies, and sauteed. In a world-ending apocalypse, this is the only crop I could consistently eat/subsist on year-round. I can't recommend enough that veggie growers in South Florida grow this - it's crazy that when you search for veggies for our climate, it rarely comes up.

Now if we're just talking about a hypothetical normal world and enough space to grow only one tree, no doubt it would be some variety of mango.

[SeaWalnut]

If we are cheating with a multigrafted tree,then id plant a plum grafted with apricots,peaches,cherryes,pluots,a branch of almonds another one of sour cherryes .Biggest diversity of fruit from a single tree.

[knlim000]

I'm technically cheating because this is a vegetable rather than a tree, but 100% longevity spinach. Unlike every other vegetable or fruit tree, it grows year round in South Florida, it grows quickly, it spreads fast, and you can propagate just by throwing cuttings on the ground (as I've mistakenly learned thinking I was composting and instead was creating a new patch of the stuff). It's extremely healthy (probably more so than kale). We use it in salads, smoothies, and sauteed. In a world-ending apocalypse, this is the only crop I could consistently eat/subsist on year-round. I can't recommend enough that veggie growers in South Florida grow this - it's crazy that when you search for veggies for our climate, it rarely comes up.

Now if we're just talking about a hypothetical normal world and enough space to grow only one tree, no doubt it would be some variety of mango.

what is longevity spinach? Is that tree spinach? I thought tree spinach , it needs to be cooked.

[savemejebus]

I'm technically cheating because this is a vegetable rather than a tree, but 100% longevity spinach. Unlike every other vegetable or fruit tree, it grows year round in South Florida, it grows quickly, it spreads fast, and you can propagate just by throwing cuttings on the ground (as I've mistakenly learned thinking I was composting and instead was creating a new patch of the stuff). It's extremely healthy (probably more so than kale). We use it in salads, smoothies, and sauteed. In a world-ending apocalypse, this is the only crop I could consistently eat/subsist on year-round. I can't recommend enough that veggie growers in South Florida grow this - it's crazy that when you search for veggies for our climate, it rarely comes up.

Now if we're just talking about a hypothetical normal world and enough space to grow only one tree, no doubt it would be some variety of mango.

what is longevity spinach? Is that tree spinach? I thought tree spinach , it needs to be cooked.

It grows as a spreading vine across the ground. Either of the below links show what it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EAhR7LPH60

https://wellspringgardens.com/products/longevity-spinach-gynura-procumbens

[Daintree]

Oh! I love my longevity spinach!  I put it into our salads every night - the ultimate super-food!
I am also growing Malabar spinach, yet another not-spinach "spinach". The leaves are super juicy, but when you cook them, they get a bit slimy, so we like it raw.
My vote in the poll was for "other", because right now, for trees, I am hooked on cacao.
For non-trees, I am WAY into solanums! I have wild African huckleberry, garden huckleberry, schwartzbeeren blackberry, litchi tomato, wonderberry, lulu, cocona, tamrillo, and dwarf tamarillo.

Happy Quarantine!

Carolyn

[Triloba Tracker]

Durian, purely based on pleasure factor