I received a couple of abius from a tree that produces mainly winter fruit of huge size with just a single seed. It is a seedling of unknown origin and the fruit are very good quality.The smaller of these 2 is over 1kg and the larger is almost 3lbs.It is hard to balance them in one hand.

These rambutans are whoppers with some to 9cm.I can't figure out the variety but they look like big binjai,rongrien and jitlee all mixed.They taste great and little testa sticks to the flesh.

Scroll through this selection of about 500 Australian rainforest fruits and their species descriptions if you are interested. They are arranged according to colors. There are 2 other volumes in this series.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8yH9je4DODQC&pg=PA16&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

African yellow flavicarpa is going crazy on my fence pumping out the fruit and the first will be ripe soon.


The Panama gold planted at the same time is also a 'sweet elite' and it is rising to the challenge. Grown in the same conditions I'll soon be able to rationally compare these 2 basic varieties.

 

While the camera is in hand here is my Russell's sweet yellow mangosteen to show I haven't killed it.I need to get a male and have one in the pipeline.
 

Oh yeah the broad leafed papayas' fruit are at least a couple of lbs each and must ripen soon and I'll be able to report on fruit quality.

I went to the Mother's Day garden show at the racecourse at the end of my street today and forgot my camera. There were a lot of good trees on offer but I only bought one.



Dwarf macadamias should be much more popular and cheap as they are precocious bearers and great for pot culture. Seedlings stay small and produce many fruit. 

My marcotted ross has been in the ground for less than 2 years and is 10 feet high with flower buds and small fruit.My nearby grafted canistel is 3 years old and only 3 feet being a real ass dragger.

I sure hope hope it is the giant fruited ross and not the standard.

Better than a kwai muk,marang,pedalai or lakoocha? You bet it is.Smokey apricot,chempadak,with a hint of fruity caramel.



It is a great fruit alright, with not latex or aftertaste and can be eaten quickly.Kids love them and oddly there is little smell.Keladangs sure are a classy fruit.

Spanning almost 2000 miles along the Australian east coast the Illawarra flame trees have seasonal blazing red floral displays when all the leaves are dropped.This most stunning of trees also has edible seeds that were roasted and appreciated by the aboriginal people.This food source has almost been forgotten and the tree dominated street plantings in many towns.





These pix don't do it justice.

So what do those edible seeds look like? See for yourself in that handsome paw below some park seeds picked up yesterday.





Jimmy Barnes with Cold chisel even sang a song called Flame Trees but not everyone can understand the scottish/australian drawl.

Jimmy Barnes - Flame Trees

This pedalai selection is the pride of the rare fruit council but I am yet to try it.People speak very highly of it.

People know longkong (dokong) pretty well and langsat is familiar to many folk as well.Kokosan is not worth knowing but what about the other 2.....duku and duku-langsat? Well here they are and they are delicious.These are only modest sized duku and some types get pretty big.They have thick skin and very sweet flesh.Duku-langsat looks kinda like a big langsat with no skin latex and a flavor on par with longkong but there are seeds.



See the difference now?

R9 is a big rambutan that has very sweet flesh and only a little bit of seed coat sticks to the flesh.They are very popular.

These 2 varieties of santol are considered the best locally and are called Manila and Bangkok.The both have smaller seeds,thinner rind, more useable flesh and a better taste than most of the common ones around.They are reputedly both self fertile.