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White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« on: December 26, 2019, 04:11:30 AM »
Ok... push came to shove...

This is a wild specimen growing in Hong Kong. Note the long peduncles and tomentose abaxial leaf side.

Ostensibly, no one has this species in cultivation yet. Will be interesting to see if mods leave two threads with same binomial now.  ;D











« Last Edit: December 26, 2019, 04:27:54 AM by Mango Stein »
Eugenia luschnathiana = CURUIRI.    Talisia esculenta = PITOMBA
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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2019, 04:39:15 AM »
No photos of full grown fruits?
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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2019, 11:08:45 AM »
No photos of full grown fruits?


I had asked the original poster of the photos from Facebook (not Mango Stein) the same question but I didn't get an answer. I couldn't tell if those are aborted male flowers or if this actually produces larger fruit. They are both called Kwai Muk.
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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2019, 11:09:57 AM »
I'm guessing the white fruitlets are immature fruit. Not sure though.
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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2019, 05:18:11 PM »
Mangostein honest question as you have Australia posted for location and seem to be stickler for classifying things...why are atemoyas called custard apple down under?

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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2019, 08:02:17 PM »
No photos of full grown fruits?





Flowering: May–Aug.; fruiting: Jun.–Aug.
Distribution: Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian.
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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2019, 10:53:44 PM »
Common names are a funny thing, and its a bit like the English language in general with names and words constantly evolving.The terms custard apple for atemoya,paw paw for papaya,bullocks heart for A.reticulata or granadilla for giants passionfruit are mostly around 100 years old and wont change any time soon. Its not easy to challenge established common names and have something universal when they are ingrained. Latin names are different and need to be corrected, changed and used according to rules.
The origin and age of some of these common names would be interesting to research.

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Re: White kwai muk (Artocarpus hypargyreus)
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2019, 11:05:56 PM »
I did look at one article about the name of Carica papaya and I quote, "The word 'papaw' is favoured by the Shorter English Oxford Dictionary, and was first used in 1598 after being adopted from papaya or papay which was thought to be a derivation of the Caribbean word 'ababai'."