I can supply american persimmon seeds/plants, but understand these fruit require a frost to become palatable. Otherwise, due to their high tannin levels, they are terribly astringent. I can only supply limited quantities, although if I cannot supply the amount you desire there are several other members who can send seeds

Apparently they use some technique known as grafting, anyone heard of this?

It is a very popular method of propagation. There have been hundreds of grafting related threads. Forum member Plantlover13 seems to be interested in creating a pomato.

Plantlover's pomato thread:
http://tropicalvegetableforum.com/index.php?topic=780.msg1305#msg1305

About grafting:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=209.0

In my place (dry/hot subtropical climate) chirimoya and atemoya perform very good! The only annonacea that does not well in my orchad is A. conica (Raimondia). If I get some aussi budwood in my hands I could try chirimoya and atemoya fruits side by side 

Mike, a store chirimoya is not representative. I don't buy them in the supermarkets any more, since I have had very bad experiences. A homegrown chirimoya is like heaven..

Felipe, have you gotten R. Conica to fruit? I have been searching for seeds for sone time, but the only source I could find is Equador, and since R. Conica is endangered it would be illegal to import. If you ever get seeds, I would be interested to buy.

I had two storebought cherimoyas July last year, and enjoyed them enough that it sparked my interest in tropical fruit. My young seedling from one of the fruit is more than a foot tall, and I hope that I will taste homegrown fruit within the next few years. My question is this: would I need to wait longer for maturity if I graft the plant with superior variety?

Yikes. Okay, all conifers are in an entirely seperate division from other cone producing plants, but are all contained in the the same order. Of cone producing plants (cycadophyta), there are, by division, coniferophyta (conifers, such as giant sequoia), cycadophyta (cycads, such as sago palm), gnetophyta (such as welwitschia), and ginkgophyta (with only one species, ginkgo biloba). As with conifers, most of these divisions contain a single order, so it would be nonsensical to list pines and firs as more closely related to welwitschia than cypress, sequoia, and yew.

Here they grow anywhere and everywhere they can. The plant is toxic, but is very popular used as an herb, and most parts are edible when properly cooked. The centimeter diameter fruit remind me of mini-mangosteens. In the title of this post, you call it ink-berry? I looked it up, and they are used for dying, but how, exactly, are they prepared for dying?

Quote from: Tao2 on October 23, 2013, 06:55:29 AM

have you had fruit from the Arbutus unedo last season?

Hi! Infortunately no, but i'm shure i will this season. 

I did

You inspered me to look for them, Luis! Thanks!

we should probably make sure to make a distinction between grafted and seedling.

Yup, and mention if the plant requires chilling hours, as that can greatly offset the time to fruit.

There are many different types, I have a type with thick, bitter purple skin, and sweet green insides with non-clingy flesh. Only problem is that their smell is very near unbearable. I like them, and could eat several at a time. I will plant the seeds that I am getting from my 15 grape harvest, hopefully I have enough excess wood to build a good trellis. BMC, if you decide to grow the variety you mentioned, let us know, I have yet to try one with sweet skin.

Can this be used for a chocolate like thing and how good is the pulp?

We think alike.

With the high pulp to seed ratio, is this used for pulp or seeds (if it is used )?

Oscar mentioned this is one of the more inferior theobromas, does this have to do with the pulp flavor/texture, seeds, or both? Luc, amazing! Since this is not unique to Adam, what is your elevation? How long are these' vegatitive life spans?

Nice to have you on the forum, Cassandra! I have never tried longan, but have a small seedling, your love of them makes me wish I had kept more! Good luck with the jackfruit (another fruit I have not tried), I hope they all do well! Jackfruit are fast growers, so I have heard, and can begin flowering after barely a year.

The leaves smell like pea pods. What might this mean? BTW this tree is unique to the forest, there are no older specimens to observe. I may as well dig it up while it is young, and eliminating surrounding competition.

Quote from: Sanddollarmoon on October 10, 2013, 03:00:11 PM

Just added #898-936, and saw there was no way to put them into alphabetical order. How might you do that? Also, maybe a column F should be added for the plant's native range.

Just because you did not know how does not mean that there is not a way.

If you click on the little drop down arrow on the right side of the column it will allow you to sort alphabetically.

Perhaps I should have worded that differently. Whenever I create a new row, it is automatically placed into line after the letter “Z.” How do you move these to their desired positions in the alphabet?