Author Topic: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)  (Read 887 times)

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Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« on: November 07, 2022, 12:29:29 PM »
Seeds, seedlings, if you know a source. Interested in trying to grow this here in Florida. Let me know what you got!

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2022, 01:39:16 PM »
fruitliberty.com has seeds of olosapo sometimes. I've bought from them but not olosapo.

My one olosapo plant I bought from 9waters etsy store.

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2022, 01:41:33 PM »
Ooh thanks for the heads up. How far have you gotten with your Olosapo plant? Flowers/fruit? Healthy plant?

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2022, 02:20:30 PM »
probably still fruit on the trees at fruit and spice park in homestead

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2022, 06:42:13 PM »
Ooh thanks for the heads up. How far have you gotten with your Olosapo plant? Flowers/fruit? Healthy plant?

Its about 3-4 feet tall now and around two years. Something was eating it before we put it in the ground but its going strong now. I think it was the japanese beetles.

They have lovely foliage.

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2022, 10:14:29 PM »
It's a really good fruit that's underrated.
I highly reccomend it.
Smells sooooo good like burnt sugar.
Downside is has a bit of fiber.
I love it though.

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2022, 11:24:41 PM »
It's a really good fruit that's underrated.
I highly reccomend it.
Smells sooooo good like burnt sugar.
Downside is has a bit of fiber.
I love it though.


Where did you get to try the fruit?  I hear they take a long time from seed, mine is only 2-3ft tall, far from fruiting

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2022, 12:02:41 AM »
I got seeds from Sadhu and they fruited in 4 years (but I’m in a hot and humid tropical zone). They’re very tough trees. One was chewed down by pests, another burnt out by a fire and they both still came back. It has a slight aftertaste of rum, by the way. Very unexpected.

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2022, 12:05:20 AM »
I got seeds from Sadhu and they fruited in 4 years (but I’m in a hot and humid tropical zone). They’re very tough trees. One was chewed down by pests, another burnt out by a fire and they both still came back. It has a slight aftertaste of rum, by the way. Very unexpected.
The guy I tried it from also stated this.
Interesting.


Brian,
I got to try from another forum member down in FL.

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Re: Looking For Olosapo (Couepia polyandra)
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2022, 08:21:30 PM »
I got seeds from Sadhu and they fruited in 4 years (but I’m in a hot and humid tropical zone). They’re very tough trees. One was chewed down by pests, another burnt out by a fire and they both still came back. It has a slight aftertaste of rum, by the way. Very unexpected.
The guy I tried it from also stated this.
Interesting.


Brian,
I got to try from another forum member down in FL.

Ah, makes sense.  Good to hear, others had said that this is a good one also so I'm in it for the long haul with a seedling one