Giant Amora

Spondias purpurea - Siriguela (Aired). Fruits are a bit damaged due to transport.

Well, here it goes my Lychees, both in containers.

Obrigado Cassio,

Vou responder em português, assim nao preciso ficar usando o google translate hehehehehe.  A jabuticabeira do seu amigo, pode ser a  paulista ou a coronata, pois agora é a epoca da floraçao de ambas.
No pico do jaraguá como faço para visitar a casa do Alfonso sartinha? na verdade quero ver as jabuticabeiras,
O Butantã que vc falou, é no instituto Butantã?
Abraço

Ricardo

Ricardo, a casa do bandeirante Afonso Sardinha é uma construção histórica datada de 1580 e que fica dentro do Parque do Jaraguá. Data do tempo em que pomares eram comuns em nossa cidade. Preview das jabuticabeiras: http://www.sosma.org.br/blog/veteranas-de-guerra-jabuticabeiras-do-pico-do-jaragua/ Chegando no Parque, é só perguntar que te indicam como chegar na casa.
Sobre o Cambucá, outras jabuticabeiras, cabeludinha e ubanaxica, isso mesmo, é no Instituto Butantã. Se você for no final de semana é mais fácil chegar perto das árvores sem que ninguém te perturbe. Para vê-las, faça o seguinte: conhece a lanchonete dentro do Butantã? Siga pela rua central, passe pelo Hospital que trata quem foi picado por cobras e siga até ver a casa rosada. Ao lado esquerdo dela você já verá uma velha e imensa jabuticabeira. Um pouco antes desta jabuticabeira, à esquerda dela, você verá os Prédios da Diretoria (na verdade, casas da antiga sede da fazenda), em um leve aclive. Uma rua tem o acesso proibido, mas a outra não. Siga por essa liberada até atrás do prédio da Diretoria.  Atrás, exatamente ao meio e onde termina o calçamento, você verá dois pés de cambucá muito altos e, atrás e à direita deles, umas 8 jabuticabeiras. Todo o entorno do prédio da Diretoria, do lado esquerdo de quem sobe, está "forrado" de pés de cabeludinha e ubanaxica. Dá última vez que fui lá (meados de agosto) transformei minha camisa em uma "bacia" para colher cabeludinha e ubanaxica, depois sentei e papei todas! Espero que tenhas a mesma sorte!

Bem, se tudo der certo, devo ir lá sábado ou domingo, pois da outra vez os guardinhas me disseram que lá perto da casa rosada tem um pé que dá as maiores jabuticabas que existem (agora deve estar começando a época), e eu estou "seco" para conseguir vê-las.

For the other members: excuse me to post in portuguese, but is easiest  in our native language to give directions to Ricardo about the trees location.

I have two lychee trees in pots, which I bought from distinct sellers in september of this year.
The smaller has something like 80 cm tall and around 20 fruits growing, and the bigger has something near 2m tall but no fruits yet. I don´t have practice pruning lychees, so, I´ll watch this topic with interest. Sellers said me that both trees are from layering (alporquia).
As a side note, my bigger tree is recovering from acaro-erinose, a health issue to much common in lychees.

As for how long to fruit?  There is a saying that you plant these trees for your grandchildren!!  LOL! 

Here in Brazil we say the same in respect to some species of jaboticaba and cambuca, right Ricardo? But don´t worry, you´re still young enough. 

Yes, Thao, all that you wrote is true in some degree.

Some aren´t hard to grow/find/propagate, don´t takes too long to produce and can handle transporting. And you could comercialize frozen pulp of the ones that can´t handle transporting. The vast majority of brazilians don´t know the native fruits, and I think the actual situation is a result of colonization and imported culture. So, the native fruits remained almost forgotten for a long time.

To say the truth, actually there is a crescent interest in the native fruits here, and a few are being produced or at least collected from the nature, as the uvaia for example. Brazil is a big country, and it also makes difficult to find/ to know all the fruits. Regionally it´s easier, but still, is hard to find them.

Sadly, here in Brazil we don´t have options to build these fruits online. Only "normal" fruits (orange, pear, apple...) are available.

This is very interesting Cassio: how would be the pruning method after fruiting?

Never did it in fact, but talking with a neighbour that does it, he said me it is done by the same way as you do with jaboticabas. I can´t explain in details how he does it, but I saw his pitanga fruiting at least two times since last december.

Good news Marcos!
The pitangas are flowering here in São Paulo too. In fact a lot of them started flowering in the beginning of this month, so, we have fruits available already.
Near of my home, in the streets, there are a lot of trees of this fruit (red color), but the size and flavor of the fruit is different from tree to tree. Hope that your tree gives you big and sweet fruits.

In my house, I have a small pitanga do cerrado and a black pitanga, but both aren´t in the age of fruiting.

look like M. aureana!  U stole that rare tree!! good job!

No, no, no, I do not stole. The seller insisted it was a goiaba and put the price down, then I stoped to discuss with him and bought the tree. 
There, the price for the traditional jaboticabas were between R$ 150,00 to R$300,00, and he sold me this tree for only R$ 37,50 !!!! An excellent deal. Even better if it is a myrciaria aureana and almost fruiting!!. 
There´s one more tree left in the nursery, a bit smaller, but is still there. I think I´ll be back and buy it to re-sell.

hahaha, I would love we had those kind of nurseries!
congrats Cassio!

Thanks Marcos!
I would love to find more of these nurseries here too!

This are orchid flowers...Vanda Princess Mikasa Blue and Oncidium Sugar Baby. Era bom se dessem em árvore! lol

Surelly! It could be a perfect combination! 

It is Syzigium cumini, fruits are a bit astringent , but good if u allow to over ripe a bit, it is a herb too, its fruit, root, bark.. all has medicinal properties... its wine , from the matured fruit, is superb...

And the the tree grows a lot!