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Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« on: August 07, 2022, 05:54:39 PM »
Just noticed this small understory tree fruiting today in our primary forest section of the property. Something about the way it looked I just had to try it. It tastes pretty good somewhat reminiscent of a caimito, but the flesh is insubstantial. If no one knows just from the fruit pictures, I'll see if I can get a photo of the leaves too.





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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2022, 08:29:24 AM »
What did the leaves look like? I’d almost like to say garcinia brasiliensis but it looks like sir
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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2022, 09:51:16 AM »
The top foto certainly looks like a garcinia.
We have another fruit here that looks similar to that that maybe is in the same genus. Posoqueria latifolia
The thing is that there are so many wild fruits that are of marginal value that only people who work locally in botany are likely to know the name.
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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2022, 09:55:23 AM »



 maybe a Peritassa species? pics of leaves would help.

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2022, 04:14:24 PM »
To me it is a Garcinia brasiliense commonly known as bacupari.  A photo of the leaves would confirm.

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2022, 08:58:57 PM »
Have some Peruvians on the case-

Seed number, color and shape do not look like brasiliensis to me

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2022, 10:32:01 PM »
I don’t like the color or seed for brasilensis either.
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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2022, 11:35:22 PM »
Possible clavija species?

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2022, 02:43:39 PM »
Foliage




Note the presence of the occasional pair of thorns.

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2022, 03:10:13 PM »
Solanum?

have to be very careful with these

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2022, 09:49:35 PM »
Solanum?

have to be very careful with these

What about the foliage makes you think Solanum? No one considered that when presented with the fruit photos..

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2022, 10:57:17 PM »
Looks kinda like Campomanesia, but usually there's a calyx on the fruit. Probably a Garcinia
« Last Edit: August 22, 2022, 11:04:32 PM by shmojojojo »

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2022, 12:05:05 AM »
You think the foliage looks like a garcinia??!?

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Re: Please Help ID this Mystery Fruit from Our Forest
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2022, 12:51:03 AM »
You think the foliage looks like a garcinia??!?

I'm no expert on garcinia, or anything for that matter, but some have leaves that look like your pics.

Here is Campomanesia xanthocarpa. Veins are different, but they look a little similar.

http://tropical.theferns.info/plantimages/7/a/7a9b1d6eebe7e1a5134276b0e7ed57306b316c55.jpg