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Recipes / Cassava Leaf, Tempeh and Garlic Nut
« on: October 15, 2012, 07:20:32 PM »
Boil young cassava leaves until the colour changes and they are softened.
Drain and squeeze out water.
Chop leaves.
Grind garlic nut in a cowek (Javanese spice grinder)
Stir fry onion, ground garlic nut, tempeh, and tomato.
After this is cooked to your liking, add the chopped leaves and coconut milk and raise to a boil.
Salt mildly and serve with fresh sambal (raw chili peppers ground with raw tomatoes and salt)
Serve with rice.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Attalea cohune - fruit review
« on: October 15, 2012, 06:57:35 PM »
People don't normally eat this nut, they just wait for it to get mature and extract oil from the hard coconut-like interior.   If you try to eat the nut when it is mature it is very tiring to chew, and once the flavour is out, you have a mouth full of what feels to be oily sawdust.  However, if you harvest the fruits before they are mature and get them in the jelly stage, they are very much like a coconut in the jelly stage.

Opening these nuts is much more difficult than opening a coconut.  If you place them on a rock and hit with a 3 lb hammer the nut will most likely fly off at 60km/hr in any direction (unbroken).  To open, chisel out a nut-sized depression in a log and whack the nut when it is in there.

These are huge and beautiful palms that have something like 70 species of insects and worms (including a blue worm) living in them at maturity in Belize.



image from www.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / My wife loves Borassus flabellifer fruits. How long does the palm take to bear?
« on: October 15, 2012, 06:32:22 PM »
My wife loves Borassus flabellifer fruits.  How long does the palm take to bear?

photo from www.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Problem Solved (regarding Please help me identify this fruit I bought today)
« on: October 13, 2012, 10:05:57 PM »
I would be very thankful if anyone could identify or try to narrow down the identification of this fruit.

I tried to photograph it but camera would only take a video... and the video is about the worst quality I have ever seen.

You can check out the 3 second video clip of the fruit with 23 seconds of text here: 
banduru


Seller gave name as banduru or banturu and said tree was as tall as a mango. (but the word they used for mango may mean other giant mangifera species)  I assume it was a wild tree.  It is a large edible nut and if I understand correctly, it is only used as a spice.  The smell is like garlic.  I grated it into some fish broth this morning and it is very garlic-like in flavour.  Seller said he had not removed any fruit from the seed, and that it falls to the ground as seen in the video.



I asked if it was medicine or food and they said food.  From this I assume it can be eaten freely without fear of toxicity.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / 12 steps to setting up a plant nursery (your input desired)
« on: October 12, 2012, 05:17:29 AM »
I would like your input on my fruit tree nursery set up plans.  These steps are listed in chronological order.   This is a nursery intended to supply a 30 acre farm with its own trees and to sell a few trees each week.   I have broken it down into 12 steps.  (I will list step 1 as step 10, step 2 as step 20, etc so that if you think I need 3 more steps between step 1 and 2, you can number them, 12, 15 and 18 or something like that. )

10.  Select a good location (safe from falling trees, easy access to water, tree sale potential)
20.  Acquire a labelling system (aluminium tags for example)
30.  Complete any necessary earth works..
40.  Install poles and cable for shade cloth.
50.  Set up an irrigation system
60.  Install shade cloth
70.  Lay out weed mat.
80.  Set up a covered compost sifting station
90.  Set up a covered soil mixing station. 
100.  Set up a mulch arrival and storage area.
110.  Set up a covered soil arrival and storage area.
120.  Build a lockable shed for nursery tools.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Is Artocarpus hypargyraea worth growing?
« on: October 08, 2012, 02:08:00 AM »
I am wondering if I should hold out hope for this Artocarpus.  The one I tasted was nothing I would feel like growing to eat as a fresh fruit.  Has anyone tasted a good one?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Can anyone verify that this is Garcinia forbesii?
« on: October 06, 2012, 11:28:54 PM »
It tasted like a mangosteen without the complex delicious flavour, like a mangosteen that had been made for half the price in a Chinese factory.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Spondias dulcis or Spondias ?, the dwarf golden plum.
« on: October 04, 2012, 07:31:53 PM »
If dwarf amberella/golden plum is actually Spondias dulcis, then why do I only see big S. dulcis trees with full sized fruits and nothing half way toward the dwarf?  Is that possible or is the dwarf tree that is like S. dulcis, just another species?




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Recipes / This is how we freeze durian.
« on: October 02, 2012, 08:02:48 AM »


Seeds removed, fingers licked, bag pressed flat and sealed with a candle.  This bag of durian has been frozen for 8 months.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Is Mangifera foetida a synonym of M. odorata?
« on: September 26, 2012, 03:55:02 AM »
Treated as 2 species in "Fruits of Warm Climates", but treated as synonyms by many.  Should I consider Morton to be the authority?



One fruit in your car will give your ride some serious perfume. It smells fantastic.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado's pink SE Asian cousin, Litsea garciae
« on: September 25, 2012, 07:47:38 PM »



You can pick these in the Bogor Botanical Garden in Java in December and January.  It has a mild flavour, not sweet,  lots of fat and nothing unpleasant about it.  Eaten locally with rice.   No species map at the gate, so you will have to search many acres to find it.

Does anyone know if this tree is available for sale in FL or HI?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Nephelium juglandifolium at the Bogor Botanical Garden: too acidic
« on: September 24, 2012, 08:40:55 AM »



A gorgeous large tree with attractive fruits, ripe in December of 2011.
The fruit is great for the first second it is in your mouth and then you are hit with extreme acidity.  Despite this, I kept eating them for that first second of pleasure.   I would be happy to hear if anyone has tasted a better fruit from this species, as I have only encountered one tree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / The Sultan of Fruits (my photos of red durian) Durio graveolens
« on: September 24, 2012, 08:17:48 AM »





When there is a lot of durian in our diet, we prefer red durian (different species), but if we have had no durios in a while, we prefer durian.  Red durian is very dense,  fatty and red through to the seed.  It has almost no smell and a very subtle flavour.  Little diversity in taste but lots of variability in flesh thickness with some trees producing fruits that barely have their seeds covered with flesh while other trees produce fruits that have frequent aborted seeds with very thick flesh.  During the "fruit season" here in Sabah,  red durian is my favorite fruit.  Sorry to appear in the fruit photos, but I could not help it upon finally meeting the Sultan.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / If you're excited about getting Baccaurea lanceolata, read on...
« on: September 24, 2012, 03:07:39 AM »



I have purchased them like this and ripe.  They are extremely difficult to peel when immature.  When mature, the peeling is easier, but not easy.  I made two products from the fruit, as it is too acidic to eat raw. 

The first was juice.  The juice had a beautiful pink colour and a good acid:sugar ratio was achieved, however, there was no real flavour or aroma and the acid still burned the tongue. 

The second product was a salt ferment done anaerobically.  It produced a decent pink pickle that we enjoyed  eating, but the effort to peel the small fruits and the small amount one ended up eating with a meal meant that if you had this tree, most of the fruits would be wasted.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / 'klambuku', an unusual rambutan or a distinct species?
« on: September 22, 2012, 11:05:30 AM »





The big one is Klambuku.  It's flesh melts off the seed more than pulasan.  The flesh is not crispy or firm-textured like rambutan.  It is sweet, very juicy, sub-acid and just as good as rambutan or pulasan.   Trees are very rare here.  I hope it does not go extinct if it is only a local fruit.  Most locals do not know it.  As a side note, the green-skinned pulasan is ripe.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Delicious unidentified fruit
« on: September 22, 2012, 05:23:21 AM »
Does anyone have any idea what this is?  It is a fruit purchased at a farmer's market near the equator at 900 feet elevation.

mysterious fruit

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