It is 3.5 years old and had a generous regime of fertiliser application with lots of micros and potash as it is on the Salleras farm. I have not seen the tree in fruit was told they are a little larger than achachairus and a little sweeter. The photo makes it look smaller than that species. I recall receiving a selection of this species which allegedly was sweeter than most.

Between 2 and 4 years ago I received many Brazilian Garcinias which I spread around and surprisingly some are starting to fruit already.The label of this one was transposed incorrectly and its identity is unknown.It is larger than achachairu and sweeter and from what I am told it is better quality.Can anyone positively identify it?

You would know pandanus and there are 10 or 11 species in my area and they all have the pineapple top on a big scale.Their relatives like freycinetia are mostly scrambling vines with red fruit.

There are only a few confirmed trees of each and no plans for wider production. They are heavy bearers with the juicy pearl being a small tree and the other two being standard large starapple trees. Alva and DPI Gold are as good as each other in quality with low latex and high quality. Juicy pearl is just different but nice but is quite milky and the latex is not tenacious. Most juicy pearls are 150g to 250g with some more than 350g and they are flattened on the poles.

My Carters Red was root bound and struggling at first after being in a pot too long. Here are some fruit on it one hour ago. They are such vigorous trees and can grow through it. I fertilised mine from a young age with mg,zn and bo as well as NPK and it responded immediately.

I am prett6 sure E.calycina is it.Have a look at the fruit on my pyriformis x lutescens.

Thanks for a go at identifying it.I didn't receive E.calycina unless the seeds were mislabelled and maybe I missed up the tags myself as unlikely as that seems. A goose incident a few years ago where the bird got into the forbidden zone and pulled all the tags out of pots could have been the event that resulted in the present confusion. That goose volunteered for K.P. that year.

Pitangatubas are producing well at the moment and my orange E.uniflora (not standard) are also producing. The jaboticabas are a mix of escarlette  and red dwarf hybrid (thanks Oscar).


Now that I have your attention the real reason for this thread is to find out the identity of the fruit below.It was labelled as Campomanesia pubescens but this doesn't seem right.I gave it to my brother and it is a small plant. My Cherries of rio grande got chopped down in my yard as they were too big and unproductive.I figure my climate is too warm for them to bear. My Eugenia cerejas suffered a similar fate in my yard as they grew too big and crowded out other plants without fruiting. It is neither of these.

Only Bali is a mono and it is not even an official subspecies of S.zalacca which is one of over 20 species. Sometimes published as one with the 20 or so names types of Balis as subordinate variety names. S.affinis is sweet sour and the 3rd best species and is certainly better than quite a few varieties of wallichiana and zalacca. To re-iterate, there is no such thing as S.edulis and it seems to be a phantom name.

Yes they are tillering palms but can be kept upright with staking. Removing suckers is best as a gradual process with a separation cut some time before the final digging out.

Let me tell you an abridged version of my salak adventure. I went to Thailand and researched the sala visited the farms and ate salas until they came out of my ears, until I was spray painting porcelain. Yes I thought I need to grow sumalee and a few nern wong and I dutifully collected 100s of seeds from 3 loculed fruit to make sure I got more females. The multi kilo seed booty got seized when I came back to Australia even though they were permitted entry. That is a whole other tale of incompetence colliding with laziness(not mine) and my seeds being the casualties.
Friends visiting Thailand collected more seeds for me in subsequent years but my pre trip lecture about the 3 locules and varieties took the sting out of their enthusiasm. I grew 14 salas from these in my yard, about 8 sumalee,5 noen wong and 1 moh.13 have turned into massive males that I am hacking out and my one female sumalee has had fruit a few times.I will leave one male.
I have tried a few zalaccas and quite a few balis in particular and read all the info I could get. Have a look at the thesis John from Hawaii posted in the library in this forum on bali salak varieties. Pondoh doesn't impress me so planted gula pasir and boni (thanks Micah) and they are too young to fruit yet. I know there is another good Bali out of the 20 or so but we wont get into that.
I am sure there is a moral to tis story but it eludes me. 

Real sumalee are not usually smaller nern wong from my recollection.

My 8 foot 5 year old tree has not flowered. In contrast my 3 foot 3 year old one produced flowers a few months ago but none set.It looked way too small to open its account.