In no particular order...

Durian
Marang/jackfruit
Mabolo
Lychee
Pineapple (must be ripened on the plant)
As previously mentioned, mangos are a given,..

Obviously I like strong, distinctively flavored fruits.

Euphorbia is not a cactus - a different family altogether. Most euphobias contain highly toxic compounds

I have never seen anything in the literature about cactus fruits that are toxic, even though quite a number of species contain alkaloids and other compounds in the plants flesh. I have routinely sampled cactus fruit I have encountered both in habitat and in cactus collections; all were edible (although most were bland or tasteless. a few were excellent).

Beni,

Perhaps it is a species that is native to Java? Does the fruit have the same strong aroma of D. blancoi?

Quote from the Univ. of California booklet "Propagating Avocados":

"Even among professional propagators, few remain long unscarred."

Hi everyone,

Spring is here in central California and I have the urge to graft. I was thinking I would like to produce a lot of the white sapote varieties that are floating around, but I need some rootstock. Does anyone know where I could lay my hands on some seeds?

Thanks.

This is a traditional tea in Japan and China, called biwa tea. Traditionally the fresh leaves are lightly toasted to improve the flavor, and sometimes the flowers are included as well. Studies show the tea is rich in antioxidant flavanoids. Enjoy!

Could it be Medinilla? They are commonly called rose grapes in English.

If this is it, they are an Australasian genus of melastomes with fleshy fruits.  M. magnifica from the Philippines is probably the best known.

Bamboo is actually not that hard to get rid of. The new shoots, while still about a foot tall, can be snapped off at ground level and will die back to the root. Each 'cane' (called a culm) only lives 3 to 5 years and then dies; they are constantly replaced by new shoots that usually emerge once or twice a year. If these shoots are snapped off, the whole plant is starved of food and denied new replacement culms, and will eventually die out.

As has been mention, the clumping types can be "shocked" and often killed outright, simply by cutting all the culms in a clump to ground level. Any weak sprouts can be treated by the method above above.

Also, the leaves and shoots are like candy to cows, sheep and goats; if you are able to turn any of these critters loose on it they will graze it out pretty quickly.

 "Reineke was an old time member of the original CRFG.  His name is attached to several different fruits from that era.  I just assumed that his selection must have had thicker skin to protect it during commercial handling."

Jack, the story I remember from an early issue of the CRFG newsletter (before it morphed into The Fruit Gardener magazine)  was that the Reinecke Commercial was named because they tended to ripen all at once; one of the main drawbacks for WS being (from a commercial standpoint) that they fruit and ripen in waves throughput the year (in some climates)  and that the color change is so subtle that it make harvesting by untrained workers a problem. The Reinecke was supposed to address this issue, but was by some accounts at least, not the best flavored; I have not tasted it myself. I believe Bob Chambers kept it in his collection to preserve the even-ripening trait for future breeding.

As to the Leroy, developed by Leroy Ross in Vista, it is my favorite out of a dozen or so varieties I have tasted. Leroy brought some scions in to Quail Gardens when I worked there and I grafted about a dozen trees; I don't know if one ever got planted in the fruit garden. I took one with me to Hawaii, and planted it on the Hamakua coast. Excellent flavor and highly productive.. I don't know of any commercial source for it.

Your description sounds like it might be P. quadrangularis; called tumbo in parts of Latin America.

Do you have any photos?

Growing date palms from seed would not give you the Super Red Date Palm anyway, even if such a variety existed... dates are extremely variable from seed. They must be cloned from offshoots, or meristem culture.

Nice picture though; makes me want to go eat some dates...

I had good success grafting lychee, rambutan and pulasan. Usually used patch buds on rambutan and pulasan, cleft and veneer grafts on lychee. The trick was to make sure the bark was slipping; if not it would be an almost total failure. When the bark was slipping, the rate of takes was good.