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Bangkok if you look at the original article in the link you'll see the fruit are large and spherical and this should help identify them as well as the distinct foliage/growth form.I wonder how some pretty ordinary types of fruit have become widespread and popular yet some great fruits remain very rare even where they come from.
Hey Felipe, is that supposed to be Russel's sweet?I want to add to the mystery. I went to the CATIE garden in Costa Rica. They had what was labelled Garcinia xanthocymus, but ive have G. xantho and these fruits were much larger and much sweeter than any G. xantho I had ever seen or tried. I must have eaten 20 fruit in one sitting. I brought back the seed and got about 18 to sprout. I planted one i the ground the others I've sorta just been giving away or not paying attention to them. They look just like the one Felipe just posted a picture of
Felipe yours look just like what I have from the CATIE garden. Adam the the fruit was almost the size of a mangosteen and sweet.Isn't G. dulcis not actually sweet?
David there is no list because there are no seeds.I have been trying to get seeds for a long time and have failed so far.Admittedly there are a couple of people I said I would pass them on to if I do get seeds.I might have to wait until my trees have fruit.The fellow who took the fruit photos received some cuttings from a female tree in the past and grafted them on to xanthochymus. The grafts survived and sprouted easily.