I don't know about the current EU regulations, but due to risk of importing pests to the fragil subtropical ecosistem, there have always been restrictive rules for the Canary Islands. The rules for impoerting seeds, plants or any material are the following: 1. you need a permit 2. you need a phyto 3. no soil 4. some spp. are completelly prohibited.

The reality is, that it is impossible to get a permit and if you get it, then the process at the customs take that long, that most plants and scions perish.

As a result everybody ignore the rules and import ilegal. In fact even big nurseries import whole containers with plants from Netherlands of Spanish Peninsula. I also know from a lot of people who also import seeds and scions in a small scale and I only heard once that a pack of scions was confiscated and destroyed by the customs. So it usually works, but there is a risk of getting confiscted..

I am not talking of Spain in general, but only Canary islands. If you compare regions in Spain, CI are the worst in terms of (school) education. In the (industrial) north, things are better. Here are also some very intelling and educated people, great researchers and horticultural aficionados, but unfotunatelly they are a little minority...

In my opinion the reason that we do not have a more intellectual society is the warm climate, which makes the people lazy... it's more fun hanging up at the beach, then reading a book...

Over the years I have tried to introduce tropical fruit and donated a lot of plants to many people, but its very hard to wake up the interest for new things. And when I explained the difference among cultivars, they mixed up the plants and lost the tags. One year ago I gave a friend 10 diffenrent labeled pitayas, told him to keep the labels so he could later identify them... one year later he does not have a clue which ones he did plant...   

This is an atemoya. Canarian people like to come up with names and make stuff up in order to sell something. Thats pretty common. 

Atemoya and there is no soursop in it. Soursop and Cherimoya don't cross.

Thats also my information...

You have to contact ICIA, not Cueva del Polvo 

Here is a contact list: https://www.icia.es/icia/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4628&Itemid=100290

I am pretty sure laurisilva is too cold for mountain durio and artocarpus. It is very good for temperate fruits, but not tropicals. Keep in mind, that Borneo is in the tropics and Canary Islands in the subtropics. I would try Borneo mountain stuff close to sea level in CI. the Climate range should be fine, but other factors could be a problem like air humidity, ph, salts, ect..

If you need help germinating seeds or growing stuff, let me know...

Thank you, yes, i was planning to contact Cueva del Polvo.

I have been in quite cold Borneo mountains ( T not rising above 11C for days un Feb), so i think the north or even the laurisilva might be better for the fruit of those areas than the south.
I would try all Artocarpus i can find, some might survive.

You have to contact

I have some questions regarding Diospyros blancoi:

- how is the taste/eating quality (I have heard there are many different types, from very bad to vare tasty)
- is this mabolo dioecious?
- how is the germination rate of mabolo seeds?

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Do you find them in the Amazon basin, or which region in Ecuador?
Are duguetias slow grower, compared to other annonas?
Whats the average germination rate for duguetia seeds?

Last year I had the first good crop. Unfortunatelly they have very little very dry flesh. However it has a very nice and exotic aftertaste hard to describe, but the flesh is so scant theat you have to eat three in order to get this taste.

For now I will keep the tree as a curiosity, but IMO its not worth growing for the fruit.

I am very dissapointed. I thought the mystery of the jabuticabra would be solved in this video...
 


 

Will there also be a part 3 with the Jabuticabra?

 

I really enjoyed this vid, amigbro! But you did not show any pouteria and annona. Will there be a part 2?

Simon and Chandramohan, thank you very much for this useful information. Next time I will put in practice ;-)