This Delight has a line that can be traced back to Matt's Landscapes and it shows that it is a white x red.How does it taste?
It was good, better than most white fleshed dragonfruit being a bit sweeter and a little more complex in taste.It is perhaps on par with a standard commercial red fleshed dragonfruit even if there is less kiwi and grapey overtones.Good reds such as Colombian and spiny yellows are better flavoured and I would give it 7/10.

Dragonfruit that are yellow ironically show more spine that other types.This spineless yellow hybrid is hitting the markets now and soon I'll see how much backbone it really has.Maybe this hylo is a mega.

The wet season is failing but some of the wet season fruits are coming out.I picked up these in the market today.









The marang was called Cebu special by the seller,the abiu looks like a Z4,there are smooth lakoocha and the everyday achacha (achachairu).

In my travels today I stumbled across a seedling wampi with very nice fruit. Being a seedling it has lost its identity.In spite of the fruit having about 3 seeds each the taste was very good.

A friend who is allergic to mangoes needed some removed from his trees today to reduce the flying fox attention. They include KP's, a seedling Asian that is okrung like and a dark mango of unknown type. If there are better mangoes than tree ripened backyard KP's I'll eat my hat.

These Garcinias forbesii are quite sweet and nice to eat. The small Russell's sweet is a seedless brumby from a female flower that has not been pollinated so is mis-shapen. A fertilised flower produces a large spherical fruit with seeds.

My miracle fruit can produce hundreds of fruit at a time at it is looking quite Christmassy at the moment with red and green. It fruits several times a year.

A friend took pix of this fruit near Beijing recently from a fresh fruit market and asked me what it is. I looks a lot like Duguetia but I guess it must be a Moraceae of some type. Does anyone know?

It is generally known that langsat/lansium has greater cold tolerance and drought tolerance that other varieties of L.domesticum but fruit are generally smaller and more acidic.

My duku Johor variety dropped most leaves this dry season and is just reshooting now.It looks poor whenever winter temps get below 13c and it just seems to like it hot and wet all the time.


Longkong don't seem to suffer with minimum temps of 10c and at my friend's place 5c.My larger one experienced leaf burn and dropped some leaves towards the end of the dry season but the other 2 showed no ill effects.They are shooting well with a little rain.



My duku-langsat showed no response to lowering winter temps and handled the dry season very well.





I don't grow any langsat as I prefer the fruit of the other types.Kokosan is an Indonesian sour,comparatively low quality variety of Lansium domesticum reported to be very sensitive to dry or cool conditions.

I recently received seeds of Eugenia pubescens but I can find little information on the species.It appears to be a valid species and may or may not be a synonym of Myrtus pubescens and Psidium salutare var. sericeum as there seems to be a lack of clarity when you try to google references.

Does anyone here know of this species? I would appreciate any tangible info.

Mike T

http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/CaringForTrees/DelayedIncompat9-96.htm

The thread on durian tip die back made me think it is worthwhile elevating graft incompatibility to a thread. It is a condition not always acknowledged and often blamed on other causes. Sickness, small leaves, canker. lack of vigor and an early death are symptoms in some species. Nurse grafts and extra attached rootstocks can prevent problems.

It is not always to do with a lack of relatedness, unmatched speed of growth between rootstock and scion or the types of graft.The attached article is one person's experience with this problem.

I sometimes over-indulge in fruit when too much is ripe at once.It happened at breakfast today but the fruit is light and won't 'repeat' on me like a durio and artocarpus breakfast can.I had a broad leafed papaya, or much of it, 2 great types of starapple,canistel and ross sapote off my own tree.

I have seen a lot of canistel varieties or forms I should say, around lately.I like the moister,clean skinned large types.Here are two of the best.The larger is 2.3lbs.