I’m now convinced our planted one is a fake, foliage looks different from our real Amrapali . It was always suspect, and we never took budwood from it for this reason. Whatever it is, it Still has yet to fruit.
Our real Amrapali, which is a topwork, has fruited every year despite getting badly outgrown and overcrowded by its stump mate, and always tastes superb. I think it’s definitely an Indian variety worth trialing here but hardly anyone has them.
Oh man, my mode went south quick when I read fake, glad to read the rest of that. You sent me Amrapali budwood 3 seasons ago (end of the season); it took an over-winter, but pushed early the next season. It has been slooooow growing, I have it on double-stone (2 seeds) rootstock and it's still only flushing twice a season. It flowered this season, but I'm not letting it hold fruit until I get a scion or two off of it. I'm going to graft onto something very vigorous and/or a mature tree to see if I can speed up its growth.
Also, maybe it's somewhat effected by the rootstock, but the Amrapali has the most lush green leaves I've ever seen. Even the initial flush colors are spectacular compared to the other varieties I have; Guava (with it's initial burgundy flush) is the only one that comes close, but its mature leaves are nothing special.
