Salak fruits

[Chandramohan]

I have this Salak plant with three bunches of fruits. When I tried to eat one fruit, it is so sour, that G. gummigutta is very sweet in comparison. What could be the reason?

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Mine get a lighter color when ripe and the skin can even crack

[Gouralata]

Hello, your salak is not Salacca zalacca but Salacca wallichiana and you can harvest it when the color turns to red. perfectly mature it is juicy and sour but not so much.

Gouralata

[Chandramohan]

Thanks friends. So I will wait till the fruits turn red!

[Mike T]

Where did the plants come from and what were they identified as? There are many contenders in the 2 main species it could be. Only a few varieties are not sour. Was the flesh crisp like pineapple core? Were there 3 locales? What thickness is the flesh? Sakum and rakum can sometimes stay brown but sala are nearly always reddish.  It could well be a SZZ and isnt a bali type.

[Chandramohan]

The plant was given to me as just 'Salak'. I tried only a couple of fruits, and both were sour and not crisp and had two locales. I am waiting to see if they turn red.