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Luc's Garcinia study
« on: March 21, 2017, 09:25:09 AM »
Came  across an interesting article published in the Vallarta Botanical Garden newsletter regarding Luc's Garcinia. Under the article on Page 9, there's a photo of a few gentlemen standing in front of one of the trees. Seems they thought it was G. intermedia at first but it's likely a separate species. Too many differences besides just the larger fruit size.

http://www.vbgardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/leaflet-feb-2017.pdf

"We are constantly amazed at the complexity and diversity
of nature, especially here in the tropics. The more we
study, the more we realize what we don’t know! Take for
example Garcinia intermedia, a beautiful, edible, fruiting
tree that grows naturally in the Garden’s forest preserve
and is also represented by a specimen in the VBG’s Vallarta
Conservatory of Orchids and Native Plants.
This past month, a team of researchers representing
the  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  and Yale
University visited our Garden on a hunt for  Garcinia
intermedia. They shared with us that the specimens
they encountered in the vicinity of Mismaloya Canyon
(between the VBG and downtown Puerto Vallarta) have
distinct morphological features, most noticeably larger
than normal fruit, that may indicate they are their own
separate species. The plants they encountered occurring
wildly in the VBG’s forest preserve have these same
characteristics. The researchers will need to go back to
their herbaria to further analyze their samples, both under
the microscope and the DNA sequencer, but their hope is
that the data will back up their hunch. We hope so too as
this would mean the description of a new “microendemic”
plant for our region—something totally unique to our
coast of Jalisco!"

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Re: Luc's Garcinia study
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2017, 10:47:57 AM »
Very cool.

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Re: Luc's Garcinia study
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2017, 11:44:58 AM »
By the way this is really a hardy plant. 3 little plants survive to negative temperatures that adult big trees like Reed avocado, Cherimoya and Guavas didn't survive!  :o

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Re: Luc's Garcinia study
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2017, 12:02:52 PM »
My 2 year old Luc's Garcinia did not survive winter. Only had about 4 leaves at the outset - after a few frosts it was gone. Maybe it's not THAT hardy - I'll try again with a more mature plant someday.

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Re: Luc's Garcinia study
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2017, 12:07:26 PM »
My 2 year old Luc's Garcinia did not survive winter. Only had about 4 leaves at the outset - after a few frosts it was gone. Maybe it's not THAT hardy - I'll try again with a more mature plant someday.
WOW really? I plant outside 3 little Luc's garcinia plants that were on same pot. They just got two leaves each and i only put a plastic pot on top of them. I got soo many adult trees killed... it seams it's a miracle then.  ;D

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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2017, 07:04:34 PM »
I didn't cover or protect the plant at all. It was on its own. Low of 28F but we had a lot of hours below freezing.

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Re: Luc's Garcinia study
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2017, 08:30:54 PM »
Omar Paez, (Omarudy)  forum member was here on January 23   with the other two gentlemen authorities from Yale and UNAM universities, Omar is doing  his thesis on the Mexican Garcinia and part of this trip was with the purpose of collecting flowers of this species for DNA tests, Luc and I had the privilege of taking them to some of the areas where the trees are abundant, as Omar mentioned part of this trials on DNA will be done this summer....
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Re: Luc's Garcinia study
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2017, 01:20:56 AM »
I wish you (Raul) and Luc the very best on your journey into the history books! Best regards, Chris
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