http://www.freshfruitportal.com/2013/01/08/fruit-fanatic-an-exotic-fruit-collectors-ecuadorian-dream/?country=united%20states

These 2 marangs were both just over 4 1/2 pounds each. Tree produced only about 8 fruits this year, but all large. It's an excellent tasting fruit. My wife described them as tasting like jackfruits for royalty.

Yes it does look like something out of a Dr. Zeuss story. But it's actually a Davidson plum flowering finally for the first time. At first i was mad at a hit and run driver that left the tree tilting to one side and the very top sheared off. But now i'm thinking maybe it jolted it into flowering? A hit and run girdling operation?

USDA to let Hawaii ship Sharwil avocados to mainland US
http://news.yahoo.com/usda-let-hawaii-ship-avocados-mainland-us-205328166.html
(One error: last line of news article should read: Sharwil avocados were introduced from Australia in 1950's)
Note how they exclude California and Florida to keep from stepping on CALAVO or Florida Avo Association toes.

This is their second fruiting:

The trees are much more upright and taller than cacao, the leaves much bigger and rounder. Hard to tell really that it is a theobroma except by looking at the flowers. The fruits are up in the canopy rather than on trunk as with cacao. The flowers are deep red. Couldn't photo the flowers as so far they went unnoticed 12 feet up in the air. This tree is about 5 years old:

Some photos i posted from last year's crop:

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   B o s w o r t h   5   i s   W a i   C h e e   
   B o s w o r t h   1 0   i s   K w a i   M a y   R e d .
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 a n d   K w a i   M i   b e l o n g   t o   t h e   T a i   S o   g r o u p   ( s o   T a i   S o   i s   n o t   a   s i n g l e   v a r i e t y ) ,
 a n d   K w a i   M a y   R e d   s e e m s   t o   b e   N o   M a i   C h e e ,   b u t   S a l a t h i e l   i s   d i f f e r e n t   f r o m   N o
 M a i   C h e e .

Been collecting ohelo berries (Vaccinium reticulatum) here for long time. These are native berries in the blueberry family. They are favored for making pies, or jams and jellies, but can also be eaten out of hand. They grow at higher elevations, usually 3-6,000 feet where it stays quite cool but never freezes.  In this photo you can see the berries come in many different colors and taste also slightly different:

This last weekend i found and collected fruits of another related species called Ohelo Kau La'au, or tree ohelo, Vaccinium calcynium. This plant can get up to 16 feet tall. The other ohelos are small bushy plants, now sometimes sold in pots as they also make great ornamentals. This is the first time i've seen (or noticed) tree ohelo. Here is what the fruits and leaves looled like. Unlike regular ohelo the leaves on these are serrated and much larger:


Tree ohelo on left and 2 colors of regular ohelo on right:

Both these species have the marvelous ability to grow right in new lava, in fact they prefer growing in lava cracks:

Never heard of this before:
http://www.houseofannie.com/durian-flowers-with-sambal-belacan/

One of my grumichama trees has set many hundreds, maybe thousands, of fruits. I froze some, but am wondering what others do with the excess? I sold them last year, but think this year want to try using them. Has anyone tried drying them? Any other suggestions? I have another tree that also is loaded, fortunately they're a bit later staged. Even a small volunteer tree close by is fruiting! The year of the grumichamas! 

This study showed that high success, 70%, is possible in rooting softwood cuttings of soursop, with rooting starting in 6 weeks. Seems like a good way to rapidly reproduce superior strains apart from grafting.
http://www.actahort.org/books/923/923_36.htm