I have finally got myself a seedling of I. fagifer, but have never heard anything about the nut's taste or how easy it is to get out of the shell, or if it falls off the tree when it is ready to eat.  Can anyone help with this information?

I really like this fruit, so it is the first L. domesticum I have saved seeds from.  It is the least sweet L. domesticum I have had, but has no latex and is massive.  Most fruits have only one fully developed seed and the seed is large.  Is it longkong or duku... or is longkong just another word for duku?

70% of the fruits in the market are this size.



skin different on these two, both soft and ready to eat today.

I have basic descriptions of 9 edible durio species, but none match this durio species  that is sold in Tenom.  Last year I bought it as "durian kura kura".  Today it was sold as "Opplo" (Murut) and seller said it did not grow fruits at the base of the trunk (like D. testudinarium), but up in the branches like other durios.  I later showed it to another Murut man and he named it "Tautungon".  He also said that it did not produce fruit at the base of the trunk.  The size of the fruit, spine length, flesh colour and skin colour otherwise match the description of D. testudinarium.

The flavour of the fruit is like sweet carrot bubble gum and the flesh is sticky and very calorie dense.



fruits always have this ring of black hairs where the stem meets the fruit.




I bought 7 fruits and they ranged from 9 to 11 cm long.



The flesh colour of this one was yellow, but they can be yellow-orange as well.



spine length is less than 1 cm




seeds in first fruit were 25 to 32 mm long



seed is darker brown than a durian seed (beside it for contrast)

I would like to hear your opinions about the species.  Can D. testudinarium produce its fruits on the branches, or is this not D. testudinarium... and if not, then what is it?

I cannot process any orders until April 5 2013, so please wait until then to see what seeds are still good and what I have added.  Thanks. To order seeds, follow the instructions at the very bottom.  Do not message me through the forum.

I will update this in a week, but as of March 15 2013 I have seeds of





Sterculia urceolata Fruit like cacao, with sweet, acidic, salty stimulating thin flesh.  Seems addictive.  Maybe has high caffeine. 5 foot tall tree has about 50 fruits on it.  2 seeds/10 USD  (crappy photo mine, other from www)


Dialium species from Serian Sarawak.  Delicious. 10 seeds/10 USD 4 lots.  (photo from www) seeds sprouted and leafing out already, but hope to get more seeds in about 2 weeks.


Aegle marmelos, 15 seeds/10 USD ; 2 lots


Curcuma longa or turmeric  5 pieces of rhizome/ 10 USD (photo from www)



Kaempferia galanga or kencur (pronounced ken chur)  3 pieces of rhizome / 10 USD (photo from www)





Pluchea indica or beluntas, a "Perennial Vegetable" or "Perennial Green".  Very easy to grow.  With this species, you can have edible leaves available every day of the year with no effort.  Can be pruned into a hedge.  3 cuttings / 10 USD  (photos from www)




 Minimum order of 15 USD or 30 USD if using an import permit. 
 I receive payments with pay pal.  Look for my PayPal address on the Seed Order Form (but don't pay until I have calculated your postage)
Seeds are taken out of the fruit by me and immediately stored in plastic baskets full of decomposed plant material,  kept moist and labeled.  (see photo below)  This assures that your seeds will be sent out alive and that the seeds will be the species labeled on the bag.  I take no responsibility for anything that happens after I have delivered your seeds to the post office. 

I pack in sterile, moist, decomposed plant material, in plastic bags or  plastic boxes in such a way that if the seeds will germinate in transit, or have already germinated in my basket, they will not be protected.   For small seeds, I  pack with moist egg carton.  I  don't have a printer, so requests that involve me printing an import permit are inconvenient and incur a 4 USD fee.  Some seeds are nearly impossible to remove the fruit from the seed hairs, and I may not be able to do that, however I can hire someone to do it for me if the seed amount is large enough.   

How to get seeds:  Do not message me here through the forum's messaging system.

1. Click on my profile name "Red durian" above
2. Copy my yahoo email address
3. Send me an empty message at that yahoo address with "Borneo Seeds" as the subject.
4. I send you a seed order form to fill out.
5. Fill that out fully and send to me
6. With your order and shipping information I then return the order form with the total cost and my pay pal address
7. Pay through Pay Pal
8. I ship the seeds
9. I email you the receipt/tracing/tracking number.
10.  You receive your seeds

If you collect seedling photos (like I do), here is one you may not have:

Photos and comments here:  http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=3814.0 
PM me for details.  I only have a few seeds of some of these things, and lots of others. 1 USD per seed.  ( exceptions are Salacca affinis 3 USD/seed and Klambuku 2 USD/seed).  You can mix and match.   I can individually bag a minimum of 10 seeds, so if you want to mix 1 of 10 species they will come in one pack of damp sawdust and it may take you a while to figure out what is what.  If lots of folks want the same thing, I may have to limit how many one person can buy. 

Update Jan 8 2013:  Now sold out on Xanthophyllum amoenum and Garcinia spicata.

Monster vine to 60m and growing thicker than your arm.  On a strong trellis this plant creates 100% shade and will make a wall down to the ground from the outter edge of the trellis as well.  Loaded with fruits that are very good out of hand.  Brilliant orange flesh.  Plenty of edible portion on the seed.  Fruit the size of an orange and ripening with an orange skin.  10 seeds right out of the fruit 10 USD.  Limited supply.

Had an amazing day at the Tenom Horticultural Park today.   No one on staff could identify these 2 fruits in the edible fruit section of the park. 
I also do not know these fruits.

I was just wondering if there is a measure of stickiness when describing fruit, specifically adhesiveness to the mouth and fingers.  Also wondering if any of the fruits I have never tasted are sticky. Now, I don't mean the latex in an Artocarpus or a Sapotaceae, but a stickiness that is invisibly imbedded in the fruit.
Two sticky fruits come to mind that some of you may not have eaten:
1. Borojoa patinoi     aka  borojo
2. Durio testudinarium  aka durian kura kura

What else is sticky?  Has Australia come up with a sticky fruit?

Durio oxleyanus is available here now and of the 2 fruits I have eaten so far, I got 5 good seeds in the first and 1 in the second.  (planted 4 for myself) I love this durio and would be happy to get some seeds dispersed. 

Here is a thread with the topic of Durio oxleyanus ... and a photo.  It has been discussed in other threads too.
 http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=3742.0

The fruits were only around in Jan of last year, so try to order soon as the same will likely be true this year.
Seeds are 5USD each.  Please order atleast 3, since it takes some time to get them packaged properly and to the post office.  I pack them tightly in damp saw dust in a plastic bag with tiny perforations and  immobize the seeds so that if they germinate in transit, the roots will not be broken.  Take care unpacking.

I just checked the Malaysian postal system web site.  It is in English and has many options for mailing a small package internationally, ranging from 15.3 MYR (about 5 USD) to 180 MYR (about 60 USD).  Range reflects speed of delivery and destination with "weird" countries costing more.
Here is a link to the site to calculate postage to your home using your prefered method:
http://www.pos.com.my/pos/personal/rates.aspx

Had my first Batu apple, a fruit the folks around Malang are very proud of in East Java.  It grows above 1000m elevation around 8 degrees south latitude.  See photos at drmala.blogspot.com

Having had a farm in Nova Scotia, Canada with some old apple varieties and lots of fruits from seeds in surrounding abandoned orchards, I can rank the Batu apple I had as follows:

10 - any really good backyard variety or really good pippin eaten fresh in Nova Scotia
9 - well developed Fuji in a supermarket
8- Cortland, McIntosh in supermarket
6 - Granny Smith in supermarket
4 - a bad seedling apple in Nova Scotia, which occurs about 70% of the time
3 - a really bad seedling apple in Nova Scotia which occurs about 1% of the time, like the pippin my friends named, "Tart Vomit"
2 - a Batu apple (which has a thick skin, little sweetness, little aroma, little acidity, overly hard flesh, and an unpleasant bitter flavour.)

Owner says tree set 5 fruits and aborted the first 4.  Looks like this one will hang on.  I have never seen such a small durian tree with fruit on it.  The woman in the photo is only 5' 1" tall.  I guess you could fruit a durian in your house in Alaska.