Durio testudinarium

[Gouralata]

The only pics I got of that fruit ! It was 27/12/04 in Semengoh. 6 months later when I tried to see it again the tree was cut !

Gouralata (Reunion Island)

[Ethan]

That is a sad story, was it growing near a public sidewalk or on someones property?  Nice picture BTW.

[tabbydan]

The only pics I got of that fruit ! It was 27/12/04 in Semengoh. 6 months later when I tried to see it again the tree was cut !

Gouralata (Reunion Island)

The tree was cut!!!!  That is profoundly awful!  Getting rid of something which is relatively uncommon like that.

Thanks for posting the pic... let us know if you find a live intact one what its location is.

[red durian]

That is the best photo I have seen of a D. testudinarium which can be confirmed to be such by its location on the tree.  Thank you.  I think the Tenom Horticultural Park and maybe Bogor Botanical Garden both have this tree.  I just never have seen a fruit on the tree.

[durianwriter]

During my durian research trip, I found two durio testudinarum trees. One in Kalimantan, the fruits were still immature. We were lucky at the Tenom Agricultural Park to taste one fruit. Here are the links, with pictures

http://www.yearofthedurian.com/2012/12/durian-kura-kura-found.html

http://www.yearofthedurian.com/2012/12/tenom-checklist.html

Despite local lore, I actually thought it tasted pretty good and smelled fine.

[Gouralata]

Thank you for sharing. Did the kura kura offer a lot of flesh, did its taste remind mata kuching ? Where did you find the Durio dulcis ?

Gouralata (Reunion Island)

[durianwriter]

It was not extremely fleshy, and had a texture very similar to watery jackfruit and not like a durian at all.

I found durio dulcis in Kalimantan and Sabah. I hear there is some near Bintulu in Sarawak as well but I didn't go there.

[red durian]

D. testudinarium should be found around Sandakan, (if they haven't all been cut down to make room for African oil palms) as the Sabah name I have seen for it comes from the Sungai tribe.

[durianwriter]

What's the name?

[red durian]

What's the name?

luyian beramatai

BTW, yesterday I got a D. testudinarium seedling (I hope) from a seed that had germinated at the base of the tree.  I dug it up and it is now potted in the shade at my house.   Maybe it was a seed that one of you spit out in December.

[durianwriter]

  it was yummy