Hi Adam,

Thanks for the secret tour. I got very surprised to see E. pyriformis (sweet)! I thought this species was non-existing except in Brazil. Very cool to see a live picture. It's probably the same as in Lorenzi's fruit book.

Tomas

Hi Pancrazio,

Your new name from now on is da Vinci! That's really amazing what you have built.

Tomas

Hi Felipe,

I believe you asked for pictures. Here are a few pictures from last year. As you can see the fruit of E. neonitida really mature fast. It's only 2 weeks between these pictures.





Tomas

Hi Ed,

That's excellent news. And your plants all look so healthy. The fruit is a little sour with an nice apricot flavor. No worries if you don't like the sourness. The seed literally falls out when you cut the fruit in half so it's very easy to use it in smoothies or even in homemade icecream.

Tomas

I cannot wait to get a taste of achachairu! They look so yummy.

http://www.amazonia.bo/amazonia_bo.php?id_contenido=288&opcion=detalle_des

(use google translate if needed).

Without starting a new (old) topic, I just noticed that as I was reading more about achachairu it seems like the name Garcinia humilis is becoming more and more common for achachairu. Oscar, is this the kind of achachairu you grow on the picture on that page?

Tomas

Hey Oscar,

Thanks for the info about tropical seeds. Another thing I didn't know.

Tomas

I wonder if there exists a seed bank for endangered fruit species similar to what they have for food crops species in
Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

Tomas

Garcinia spicata?

Ed,

Can you tell me what a  pawpaw taste like?  Do they from true from seed?

Tomas

That's a beast! The more you learn about those different jaboticabas the more you need one.

Tomas

Hi,

Ok it may not be the sweetest Gacrinai but I still liked overall what people said about  G. xanthochymus. I just ordered some seeds. I like to have at least a few of the same species just in case an accident happens. Like I have this crazy cat that eats leaves of almost any plant. He chewed up one of my G. madruno seedlings and it became both leaf-less and what appeared to be life-less too! Luckily the stem was still intact and miraculous new leaves emerged later on.

Tomas

PS. Anikulapo, thanks for the offer anyway.

Hi,

Is Garcinia xanthochymus worth growing other than a curiosity? Some random quotes I found here and there about G. xanthochymus:

"most sour Garcinia I have ever tasted"
"they taste really good made as a juice with sugar"
"easy to care for plant"

I am just wondering if G. xanthochymus offers anything that I cannot get from other Garcinias like:
 Garcinia brasiliensis
 Garcina sp. (Mexican Garcinia)
 Garcinia madruno
 Garcinia gardneriana            
 Garcinia sp. (achachairu)
 Garcinia intermedia

Please chime in all you Garcinia growers.

Tomas