Just had a piece of one of the best jackfruit I've ever tried.It has a luscious taste of lemon and pineapple has almost no latex and seems like a winner.

The seeds are small like peanuts and the fruit is small also.

A stroll in a local park yielded some kasturi and imbe and there were other fruit trees..

A park not far from my place has fruit trees and I see garcinas and durians as well as many more in flower but only really mangoes with fruit.

There are a range of native trees planted around my work building just beginning to fruit.Malay apples are not native but there is one of them and the other is a S.cormiflorum

Last November after a couple of days at around 44c my large leaf mangosteen was scorched losing half of its leaves.In spite of rain,humidity and irrigation it is starting to frazzled with modest temps of only 31c or 32c.Some mangosteen lines just dont like full sun on warm days.

All.my annonas and jaboticabas have flowers and so do the durian numerous eugenia,canistels,garcinias
And so much more.It will be a great season I hope.Everywhere I go around town there seems to be flowering fruit trees.

I just had a quick look around Rustys market and still the summer fruits have not quite arrived and everything is a bit pricey.

I went to the supermarket this morning and noticed how the citrus is laid out. My local supermarket has around 15 to 25 varieties at any one time all laid out in neat rows. They change around varieties regularly. It is totally different from the haphazard nature of the local markets.It would be interesting to see what citrus is on offer in supermarkets in various places.

The names given to Passiflora edulis flavicarpa locally are a bit unusual. They are given names from other places even if they have been selected crossed and bred for decades. Panamas are local types that come in yellow and red/purple forms and it has become a bi word for extra sweet types with almost no acidity. ones that are not yellow had some standard edulis crossed in at some stage in the past. Panamas are a group rather than a single variety these days such has been the crossing in back yards. African yellows are very sweet and musky. is a large and very sweet new variety bred from Panama red. Lilikoi seems as a term seems to be more and more referring to sour yellow flavicarpas not just Hawaiian in origin.
While edulis has had over 100 years of selection and breeding with several southern Australian types claimed to be worlds best the richness and complexity of taste and very low acidity seems to have many flavicarpas way ahead of any edulis in the desirability stakes.
This week I tried a red flavicarpa selection from Cooktown that was rather like a 3 sided pyramid in shape and I was advised that a private grower spent 30 years selecting and crossing to get this line. The one I sampled was fantastic being sweet and richly flavoured. My prized red flavicarpa is the offspring of the best tasting flavicarpa I could find after trying 100s of fruit.My standard panama pales by comparison.

Below is my one that I ate today and possibly is the last fruit of the crop.I just cant pick which is better but they do taste disinctively different and are the 2 best passionfruit I ever tried.

My jaboticabas flower and fruit more in Summer and those old enough to fruit seem to have several crops a year. Scarlet fruits almost continually but not heavily for each fruiting flush. I will show pics of 3 sabaras, a grimal and a red hybrid.


This sabara just has a light flowering


This sabara has a heavy flowering flush.


The flowers are festooned on the sabara here.



The grimal has buds for flowers.


The red hybrid has flowers and small fruit.

I had 2 kepel trees that I planted too close to the house once and so were chopped down. They were more vigorous than expected and many still have the experience of them being slow growing. My ones just began fruiting when they volunteered for mulch patrol. Two large trees in a nearby park are fruiting and here is a closer look. They aren't too bad really. The taste is hard to describe a bit like fruity caramel and perhaps closest to sapodilla but denser, smoother and not as sweet. Big ones have 4 seeds and are a bit over 150g.


The flesh yield is perhaps around 35%.

The trees are very attractive with colourful new growth like the finest Theobromas.

In Australia the standard soursops are labelled as Cuban Fibreless or don't have labels. Cuban Fibreless is an old Cuban variety and perhaps should be called Cuban Fiber as it is fibrous with cotton wool like flesh, perhaps a little too much sourness and plenty of seeds. The other un-named Australian selections are fairly similar.

I currently have a fruiting Arusha (thanks Soren) and a fruiting Lisa from Recife (thanks Mangaba). My Whitman's Fiberless originally from Coconuts tree and Morado (the giant type) are yet to fruit. Last week I also  saw the golden soursop which some people are fussing about and ate some Whitman Fiberless seedling fruit that came via Whitman to Kamerunga research station and a heavier producing seedling of this tree was grafted.

So how would I rate the ones I have eaten?
Cuban Fiberless is poor being too fibrous and not sweet enough.It is hard to consume large amounts.
Lisa/Recife is good being sweeter and less fibrous than Cuban fibreless and it also has a richer ore pleasant taste nd they are productive,
Arusha is very good much like Lisa but a little better with a slight pineapple taste present.

Whitman seedling via Kamerunga is very good and the lack of fiber makes it appealing. The taste is very good but maybe Arusha shades it in that department.
Whitman (Coconut) reported to be very good on this forum and when my seedling fruits I will be able to give an account.
Golden Soursop is striking in appearance and reported to be of very good quality but I cant as yet give a personal account.
 

At 14 feet up the flying foxes gave their seal of approval to this Arusha soursop.


The Whitman via Kamerung doesn't look fancy on the outside.


That handsome paw is behind a young golden soursop which is canary yellow in 'life'.