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Parking Lot Fruit! This one for Lycheeluva!
BMc:
The best 'parking lot fruit' here is the bunya nut. With the big female cones getting to around 10kg, they can make a bit of a mess in public. A $300000-odd BMW had its roof heavily dented and windscreen and windows blown out after one fell from the crown of a 50m+ tall tree!
We have mostly the same as Adam's list plus sour tamarind, Inga sp., hawaiian type guava, mac nut, small persimmons and more in the 'park trees' category is mango (kensington pride and turpentine) elephant apple and sometimes black sapote. Unfortunately the over abundance of the large guavas especially contribute to the huge numbers of pests - QLD fruit fly, possums and fruit bats especially.
FlyingFoxFruits:
I know down south Mango is parking lot fruit! I see em all the time, usually tommy atkins and haden..all pretty but taste schmidty. :-X
Here in Central FL, you would be so surprised to see all the 20-30ft mango trees with blooms!!! Always protected perfectly, and thriving well, contradicting natural laws!
I have taken some pics, but haven't taken the time to upload them, so you must take my word instead. :)
Squam256:
There are some fruit trees that are used in landscaping here in Florida....including loquat, surinam cherry (used as a hedge), and strawberry (cattley) guava.
fruitlovers:
--- Quote from: ASaffron on February 23, 2012, 06:19:05 PM ---I know down south Mango is parking lot fruit! I see em all the time, usually tommy atkins and haden..all pretty but taste schmidty. :-X
Here in Central FL, you would be so surprised to see all the 20-30ft mango trees with blooms!!! Always protected perfectly, and thriving well, contradicting natural laws!
I have taken some pics, but haven't taken the time to upload them, so you must take my word instead. :)
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That reminds me of some mangos here in parking lots, usually far away from the parking so the fruits don't smash the cars. Ofcourse lots of mangos and tons of wild guavas all along the roads. A popular landscape fruit here in beach parks and shopping centers is natal plum. Most people don't even know they're edible. There are also date palms planted on dry side beach parks.
Oscar
zands:
--- Quote from: fruitlovers on February 23, 2012, 05:41:57 PM ---There are parking lots here that use breadfruit and also have seen allspice in shopping centers. Most landscapers in the past have steered away from what they view as "messy" fruit trees, except for coconuts, which have to be climbed and cleaned of all fruit periodically, lest somebody's head gets banged up and they get sued. But now with bad economy there is the beginning of a people movement to plant more edibles on public and private land.
Oscar
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I see lots of town planted coconuts here in South Florida. Planted in parks and medians etc. Old school was to plant coconuts that beared fruit. These days they plant non-bearing trees being afraid of lawsuits from idiots climbing trees and falling I suppose.... Also no clean up. In Oroville California I saw municipal tangerine trees. In San Antonio Texas I saw municipal pecan trees
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